An adaptive quorum-based energy conserving protocol for IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks

Author

Chao, Chih-Min ; Sheu, Jang-Ping ; Chou, I-Cheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Taiwan Ocean Univ., Taiwan

Volume

5

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

560

Lastpage

570

Abstract

The lifetime of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) depends on the durability of the mobile hosts´ battery resources. In the IEEE 802.11 Power Saving Mode, a host must wake up at every beacon interval, to check if it should remain awake. Such a scheme fails to adjust a host´s sleep duration according to its traffic, thereby reducing its power efficiency. This paper presents new MAC protocols for power saving in a single hop MANET. The essence of these protocols is a quorum-based sleep/wake-up mechanism, which conserves energy by allowing the host to sleep for more than one beacon interval, if few transmissions are involved. The proposed protocols are simple and energy-efficiency. Simulation results showed that our protocols conserved more energy and extended the lifetime of a MANET.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile radio; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 power saving mode; MAC protocols; adaptive quorum-based energy conserving protocols; beacon interval; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile host battery resources; power efficiency reduction; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Base stations; Batteries; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols; Transport protocols; Access schemes; data communications; mobile communication systems; wireless communication.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1233

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMC.2006.55

Filename

1610597