Energy-Efficient Adaptive Resource Management Strategy for Large-scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In the mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), all hosts are roaming. The network that interconnects these mobile hosts is a wireless one with a frequently changing topology, and there are no fixed infrastructures. It is more challenging to develop resource management methods for mobile ad hoc networks compared with infrastructured networks. Many previously proposed mechanisms are not well suited for MANETs, since they either rely on special frameworks or they produce a huge message overhead in resource-constrained networks. In this paper, we propose a novel resource management strategy, which need no special frameworks and directory servers. The approach can be used to many current routing protocols and the QoS issue is also considered. The results of simulation confirm the good performance of our algorithms in different situations in terms of query latency and power consumption