Power Control MAC Protocol with Increased Throughput for MANETs

A mobile ad-hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes forming an ad-hoc network without the assistance of any centralized structure. Since the devices used in an ad hoc network are mostly battery powered, power conservation is a major issue of such networks. Power control is not related to any particular layer, since we can apply power conservation methods in all layers. But most of the power control mechanisms are working in MAC layer. In this paper we have designed a MAC protocol for reducing the power consumed by each and every node. This protocol also increases the aggregate throughput of the network.

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