Throughput Based Power Consumption Protocol in Wireless MANET
Main Article Content
Abstract
Power conservation is a major issue in wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), as most of the nodes are battery powered. Power control is not related to any particular layer, since we can apply power conservation methods in all layers. But most of the power control mechanisms are working in MAC layer. In this paper we designed a Power Control MAC protocol for wireless MANET. Our first aim is to control the overall power consumption and the second was improve the throughput of the network. Thus our protocol includes two phases; in the first phase we reduce the power consumption and in the second phase we improve the aggregate throughput of the network. Our work is based on the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol. We added an additional field to the RTS (Request To Send) and CTS (Clear To Send) control packets (PRTS in RTS packet to indicate the power used to send RTS packet and PData in the CTS packet to indicate the power with which sender can send DATA packet) for the design purpose. For reducing the power consumption we used the following method: We send the RTS packet with maximum or default power. Our results show the improvement in spatial reusability increases the aggregate throughput of the network.
Â
Keywords: Wireless MANET, Power Consumption Protocol, MAC Protocol.
Downloads
Article Details
COPYRIGHT
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work
- The journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions.
- The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.