PBRCE: Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The currently most popular medium access control (MAC) protocol, namely IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF), is not energy efficient. In this paper we present the principles of achieving energy-efficiency in MAC protocol design for WLANs. Along these principles, we propose a novel dual-channel MAC protocol, called power-control binary-countdown-carrier-sense/request-to-send (RTS)/clear-to-send (CTS)/ensure-to-send (ETS) (PBRCE). PBRCE aims not only at energy-efficiency, but also at higher network throughput. The enhanced network performance is achieved by easing the "exposed terminal" and "hidden terminal" problems. The energy efficiency is achieved by reducing the collision rate-thus saving energy through avoiding retransmission of the same packets-and by controlling the signal transmission power and going to sleep mode to avoid the unnecessary passive listening

[1]  Chai-Keong Toh,et al.  Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks , 2002 .

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

[3]  Li Li,et al.  Distributed topology control for power efficient operation in multihop wireless ad hoc networks , 2001, Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2001. Conference on Computer Communications. Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Society (Cat. No.01CH37213).

[4]  Chi-Hsiang Yeh,et al.  A QoS MAC protocol for differentiated service in mobile ad hoc networks , 2003, 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2003. Proceedings..

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

[6]  Yu-Chee Tseng,et al.  Intelligent medium access for mobile ad hoc networks with busy tones and power control , 2000, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[7]  Teresa H. Meng,et al.  Minimum energy mobile wireless networks , 1998, ICC '98. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Record. Affiliated with SUPERCOMM'98 (Cat. No.98CH36220).

[8]  Marwan Krunz,et al.  Power controlled dual channel (PCDC) medium access protocol for wireless ad hoc networks , 2003, IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37428).

[9]  Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy,et al.  Power management for throughput enhancement in wireless ad-hoc networks , 2000, 2000 IEEE International Conference on Communications. ICC 2000. Global Convergence Through Communications. Conference Record.

[10]  Hossam S. Hassanein,et al.  CSMA/IC: a new paradigm for medium access control in wireless LANs and ad hoc wireless networks , 2006, Int. J. Wirel. Mob. Comput..

[11]  Vaduvur Bharghavan,et al.  A power controlled multiple access protocol for wireless packet networks , 2001, Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2001. Conference on Computer Communications. Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Society (Cat. No.01CH37213).

[12]  Mahmoud Naghshineh,et al.  PARO: Supporting Dynamic Power Controlled Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks , 2003, Wirel. Networks.

[13]  Chi-Hsiang Yeh,et al.  A power-controlled multiple access scheme for differentiated service and energy efficiency in mobile ad hoc networks and wireless LANs , 2003, 14th IEEE Proceedings on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003..

[14]  Michael B. Pursley,et al.  Energy-efficient transmission and routing protocols for wireless multiple-hop networks and spread-spectrum radios , 2000, IEEE/AFCEA EUROCOMM 2000. Information Systems for Enhanced Public Safety and Security (Cat. No.00EX405).

[15]  A. M. Abdullah,et al.  Wireless lan medium access control (mac) and physical layer (phy) specifications , 1997 .

[16]  L. Kleinrock,et al.  Packet Switching in Radio Channels : Part Il-The Hidden Terminal Problem in Carrier Sense Multiple-Access and the Busy-Tone Solution , 2022 .

[17]  Nitin H. Vaidya,et al.  An energy efficient MAC protocol for wireless LANs , 2002, Proceedings.Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies.

[18]  Hossam S. Hassanein,et al.  CSMA/IC: a new class of collision-free MAC protocols for ad hoc wireless networks , 2003, Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. ISCC 2003.

[19]  Chih-Yung Chang,et al.  A power saving MAC protocol by increasing spatial reuse for IEEE 802.11 ad hoc WLANs , 2005, 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'05) Volume 1 (AINA papers).

[20]  Marwan Krunz,et al.  POWMAC: a single-channel power-control protocol for throughput enhancement in wireless ad hoc networks , 2005, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[21]  Ram Ramanathan,et al.  Topology control of multihop wireless networks using transmit power adjustment , 2000, Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2000. Conference on Computer Communications. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Cat. No.00CH37064).