EnergyEfficient Communication in AD HOC Wireless Networks

This chapter surveys current work on energy-efficient communication in ad hoc wireless networks, focusing on problems and approaches that are most specific to the decentralized ad hoc environment and illustrate most clearly its unique challenges. We present a brief introduction to ad hoc wireless networks and discuss characteristics that make these networks structurally different from infrastructure wireless networks. We then examine some existing and proposed power save protocols. Finally, we present the topology control and minimum energy routing problems and then discuss maximum lifetime routing.