Utility-based Power Control Routing Mechanism for Energy-aware Optimization in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Min Chan-Ho (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim Sehun (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2004.10.01

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a newly energy-efficient routing protocol, which is called Maximum Utility Routing(MUR), in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) so as to investigate the minimum energy and maximum lifetimes issues together. We present a utility-based framework so as to meet various incompatible constraints simultaneously and fairly. To explore this issue, we use the concepts and mathematics of microeconomics and game theory. Though simulation results, we show that our routing scheme has much better performance especially in terms of network efficiency, network lifetime, and average power consumption.

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