Energy Saving and Connectivity Tradeoff by Adaptative Transmission Range in 802.11g MANETs

Author

Tolba, Fatiha Djemili ; Magoni, Damien ; Lorenz, Pascal

Author_Institution

Univ. of Haute Alsace, Colmar

fYear

2006

fDate

29-31 July 2006

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Power conservation is a crucial problem in mobile ad hoc wireless networks knowing that, each mobile node has a limited amount of energy concentrated in a battery. The main objective of our paper is to use a variable transmission range in order to save some energy and to keep the connectivity of the network. Our algorithm is implemented at the data link layer of the OSI model and thus can be used by all MANET routing algorithms such as AOVD and DYMO. Simulation experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of our algorithm in terms of energy used and connectivity. We show that our algorithm has an energy gain between 35% to 85% at reasonable speeds below 20 m/s and a high enough network density.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; data communication; mobile radio; telecommunication network routing; wireless LAN; 802.11g MANET; AOVD; DYMO; MANET routing algorithms; OSI model; adaptative transmission range; connectivity tradeoff; data link layer; energy saving; mobile ad hoc wireless networks; power conservation; Base stations; Batteries; Data encapsulation; Energy consumption; Military communication; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Network topology; Routing protocols; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2006. ICWMC '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2629-2

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2629-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWMC.2006.43

Filename

4124194