Maximum battery life routing to support ubiquitous mobile computing in wireless ad hoc networks

Author

Toh, C.K.

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

39

Issue

6

fYear

2001

fDate

6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

147

Abstract

Most ad hoc mobile devices today operate on batteries. Hence, power consumption becomes an important issue. To maximize the lifetime of ad hoc mobile networks, the power consumption rate of each node must be evenly distributed, and the overall transmission power for each connection request must be minimized. These two objectives cannot be satisfied simultaneously by employing routing algorithms proposed in previous work. We present a new power-aware routing protocol to satisfy these two constraints simultaneously; we also compare the performance of different types of power-related routing algorithms via simulation. Simulation results confirm the need to strike a balance in attaining service availability performance of the whole network vs. the lifetime of ad hoc mobile devices

Keywords

cells (electric); land mobile radio; mobile computing; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; ad hoc mobile devices lifetime; connection request; maximum battery life routing; mobile computing; packet routing; power consumption; power consumption rate; power-aware routing protocol; power-related routing algorithms; service availability performance; simulation results; transmission power; wireless ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Batteries; Computer networks; Energy consumption; Intelligent networks; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Protocols; Routing; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.925682

Filename

925682