Title: Dynamic power budget distribution schemes that optimise connection lifetimes in MANETs

Authors: Zeki Bilgin; Bilal Khan

Addresses: Turkish National Police, Department of Telecommunication, Ankara 06100, Turkey. ' John Jay College, City University of New York, 445 W. 59th Street, New York, NY 100199, USA

Abstract: We present new dynamic power control schemes that continuously redistribute a fixed power budget among a set of mobile wireless nodes participating in a multi-hop wireless connection or 'route'. The schemes operate with the objective of maximising the expected lifetime of the connection in the face of node movement. We evaluate the performance gain of the proposed schemes relative to each other and two previously known schemes (i.e. Uniform and MinBER). Firstly, we consider the problem both with and without considerations of control traffic and protocol convergence times. We quantify the sensitivity of the gains in connection lifetime achieved, to various system parameters including connection size, node density, power budget size and mean node velocities. Our simulations indicate that the proposed power budget distribution schemes yield significant increases in expected connection lifetimes, even when control traffic overhead is taken into consideration.

Keywords: power distribution; connection lifetime; mobility; MANETs; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile networks; dynamic power control; connection size; node density; power budget size; node velocity; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAACS.2012.049474

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 2012 Vol.5 No.4, pp.360 - 385

Accepted: 23 Nov 2011
Published online: 05 Dec 2014 *

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