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M2ANET Performance Under Variable Node Sleep Times

Authors:
Kerul Patel
John DeDourek
Przemyslaw Pochec

Keywords: MANET; transmission medium; quality of service QoS; node sleep mode

Abstract:
We investigate a new variant of ad hoc networking: a network of nodes whose sole function is to forward data in the network. This model differentiates between terminal nodes and transmission forwarding nodes in a network. We investigate the performance of the network under the condition when the forwarding nodes periodically enter the sleep state i.e., are turned off periodically. The results show the relation between the expected QoS (quality of service) and the duration of sleep time of a node (also a tradeoff between QoS and network lifetime). The higher the network node density, the lower the impact of introducing sleep state on QoS. Simulation using ns2 shows that M2ANET with sleeping nodes and running the AODV routing protocol performs better than one running DSR for a range of node densities.

Pages: 31 to 34

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4340

ISBN: 978-1-61208-148-9

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011