A power consumption study of DSR and OLSR

Author

McCabe, Andrew ; Cullen, Alan ; Fredin, Mikael ; Axelsson, Leif

Author_Institution

BAE Syst. Adv. Technol. Centre, Bristol

fYear

2005

fDate

17-20 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1954

Abstract

Low power consumption is important for static sensor nodes and handheld nodes where no power source other than a battery is available. This paper presents the results of an investigation into the power consumption performance of two contrasting ad hoc routing protocols from the IETF MANET working group, namely the proactive protocol OLSR and the reactive protocol DSR. A model of the communications stack, including the routing protocols and air interface is described. The power consumption performance of the routing protocols is compared across a range of simulated network scenarios. Power consumption scaling trends with increasing network size, density and user traffic are reported and hotspots arising from topological causes and/or characteristics of the routing protocols are identified

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; power consumption; radio links; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; wireless sensor networks; MANET working group; ad hoc routing protocols; communications stack; dynamic source routing; handheld nodes; optimized link state routing; power consumption scaling; reactive protocol; static sensor nodes; user traffic; Batteries; Energy consumption; Microwave sensors; Microwave technology; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2005. MILCOM 2005. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9393-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1605958

Filename

1605958