Energy-Efficient Cooperative MAC Protocol Based on Power Control in MANETs

Author

Xiaoying Zhang ; Anpalagan, Alagan ; Lei Guo ; Khwaja, Ahmed Shaharyar

Author_Institution

Northeastern Univ. Shenyang, Shenyang, China

fYear

2015

fDate

24-27 March 2015

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Cooperative communications take full advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels and create spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvement in the network performance. This paper presents an energy-efficient cooperative MAC (EECO-MAC) protocol using cooperative communication and power control techniques in mobile ad hoc networks. The best partnership selection algorithm, which takes energy consumption into consideration is proposed to select the optimal cooperative helper for the cooperative transmission. Through exchanging control packets, the optimal transmission power is allocated for senders to transmit data packets to receivers. In order to reduce the influence induced by interference, space-time back off and time-space back off algorithms are proposed. Simulation results show that EECO-MAC consumes less energy and prolongs the network lifetime compared to IEEE 802.11 DCF and Coop MAC.

Keywords

access protocols; broadcast communication; cooperative communication; energy conservation; mobile ad hoc networks; power control; radio receivers; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication control; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; wireless channels; IEEE 802.11 DCF; MANET; broadcast nature; cooperative communications; cooperative transmission; energy consumption; energy-efficient cooperative MAC protocol; interference; mobile ad hoc networks; network lifetime; power control; receivers; space-time back off algorithms; time-space back off algorithms; wireless channels; Conferences; Erbium; Cooperative communication; mobile ad hoc network; power control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gwangiu

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7904-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2015.165

Filename

7097950