ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

A Power-Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for IEEE802.11e Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685157,
        author={Hang Shen and Guangwei Bai and Jinjing Tao and Junyuan Wang},
        title={A Power-Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for IEEE802.11e Wireless Ad Hoc Networks},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-WCN},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={Wireless ad hoc networks Multipath routing Cross-layer desig Power efficiency IEEE 802.11e},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685157}
    }
    
  • Hang Shen
    Guangwei Bai
    Jinjing Tao
    Junyuan Wang
    Year: 2008
    A Power-Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for IEEE802.11e Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    CHINACOM2008-WCN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685157
Hang Shen1,*, Guangwei Bai1,*, Jinjing Tao1,*, Junyuan Wang1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Technology Nanjing, China 210009
*Contact email: shen_hang@yahoo.com.cn, bai@njut.edu.cn, jinjing_tao@yahoo.cn, yuanwa001@163.com

Abstract

This paper proposes a cross-layer based power- aware multipath routing protocol (CPMRP) for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. The nodes’ mobility behavior is predicted using a notion of "Signal Fading Degree, SFD". On the other hand, loop-freedom guarantee is provided by "Signal Identifier, SI". Especially, in combination of the IEEE802.11e standard at the MAC layer, we determine that the IEEE802.11e makes a significant contribution to performance improvement of CPMRP. The purpose of this work is to ensure both network performance improvement and power efficiency. Our simulation results show that CPMRP decreases the average end-to-end delay, routing overhead, packet loss significantly, as well as reduces power consumption to some extent. The improvement in end-to-end delay is more pronounced.