Transmission Power Control Techniques in Ad Hoc Networks

Communication is usually the most energy-consuming event on mobile ad hoc networks. Hence, medium access control (MAC) protocols use techniques tomitigate energy consumption on the transmission of data. This chapter presents one such technique, which consists of adjusting the transmission power of the packets. We discuss the fundamentals of transmission power control (TPC), showing their effects in wireless communication and the requirements of TPC solutions. Next, we examine the issues associated with their implementation and show the difficulties of implementing those techniques on real hardware, based on our experience with TPC-aware MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks. We close this chapter with a glimpse of future challenges of TPC-aware MAC protocols on MANETs and WSNs.

[1]  Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu,et al.  Measurement and characterization of link quality metrics in energy constrained wireless sensor networks , 2003, GLOBECOM '03. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37489).

[2]  Jie Wu,et al.  Energy-efficient coverage problems in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks , 2006, Comput. Commun..

[3]  P. Karn,et al.  MACA - A new channel access protocol for packet radio , 1990 .

[4]  Nitin H. Vaidya,et al.  A Power Control MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks , 2002, MobiCom '02.

[5]  Andrew T. Campbell,et al.  A case for variable-range transmission power control in wireless multihop networks , 2004, IEEE INFOCOM 2004.

[6]  David E. Culler,et al.  Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks , 2004, SenSys '04.

[7]  Walter H. W. Tuttlebee.  Software-defined radio: facets of a developing technology , 1999, IEEE Wirel. Commun..

[8]  Jan M. Rabaey,et al.  Distributed algorithms for transmission power control in wireless sensor networks , 2003, 2003 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003..

[9]  P. R. Kumar,et al.  Power Control in Ad-Hoc Networks: Theory, Architecture, Algorithm and Implementation of the COMPOW Protocol , 2002 .

[10]  Dario Pompili,et al.  Underwater acoustic sensor networks: research challenges , 2005, Ad Hoc Networks.

[11]  P. R. Kumar,et al.  Principles and protocols for power control in wireless ad hoc networks , 2005 .

[12]  Leandros Tassiulas,et al.  Downlink power control and base station assignment , 1997, IEEE Communications Letters.

[13]  Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro,et al.  Transmission power control techniques for wireless sensor networks , 2007, Comput. Networks.

[14]  Carlos de M. Cordeiro,et al.  ALCA: a new scheme for power control on 802.11 ad hoc networks , 2005, Sixth IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks.

[15]  Piyush Gupta,et al.  Critical Power for Asymptotic Connectivity in Wireless Networks , 1999 .

[16]  Koen Langendoen,et al.  Link layer measurements in sensor networks , 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE Cat. No.04EX975).

[17]  Chieh-Yih Wan,et al.  PSFQ: a reliable transport protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2002, WSNA '02.

[18]  J. P. Monks,et al.  Transmission Power Control for Enhancing the Performance of Wireless Packet Data Networks , 2001 .

[19]  Seong-Jun Oh,et al.  Optimality of greedy power control and variable spreading gain in multi-class CDMA mobile networks , 1999, MobiCom.

[20]  Deborah Estrin,et al.  An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2002, Proceedings.Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies.

[21]  Panganamala Ramana Kumar,et al.  RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN , 2001 .

[22]  Kang G. Shin,et al.  MiSer: an optimal low-energy transmission strategy for IEEE 802.11a/h , 2003, MobiCom '03.