1st International ICST Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks

Research Article

Travel Time and Energy in Wireless Networks with Duplicate Packets

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480084,
        author={Erol Gelenbe},
        title={Travel Time and Energy in Wireless Networks with Duplicate Packets},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={SPASWIN},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={Ad hoc networks  Brownian motion  Educational institutions  Energy consumption  Intelligent networks  Intelligent systems  Network topology  Power engineering and energy  Routing  Wireless networks},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480084}
    }
    
  • Erol Gelenbe
    Year: 2008
    Travel Time and Energy in Wireless Networks with Duplicate Packets
    SPASWIN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480084
Erol Gelenbe1,*
  • 1: Intelligent Systems and Networks Group Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BT, UK
*Contact email: e.gelenbe@imperial.ac.uk

Abstract

We show that the average travel time, and the energy consumption, in a wireless network can be significantly reduced by using multiple independently routed packets. Multiple coupled Brownian motions are used to model the travel of each packet including the effect of packet loss, time-outs for "old" packets that are dropped, and possible multiple packet retransmissions. An explicit formula is thus obtained for the total average effective travel time and for the average energy consumption per packet.