Replica allocation considering power consumption in mobile ad hoc networks

In ad hoc networks, it is effective that each mobile host creates replicas of data items held by other hosts for improving data accessibility. However, a mobile host holding data items frequently accessed by other hosts needs to transmit them many times and consumes more power than other hosts. In this paper, we propose a replica allocation method for not only improving data accessibility but also balancing the power consumption among mobile hosts. In this method, each mobile host replicates data items considering their access frequencies, the numbers of their replicas, and the remaining amount of its battery. We present simulation results to evaluate the performance of our proposed method