Data networks
Making transmission schedules immune to topology changes in multi-hop packet radio networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) for packet-radio networks
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
A channel access scheme for large dense packet radio networks
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An optimal topology-transparent scheduling method in multihop packet radio networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Power management techniques for mobile communication
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
PAMAS—power aware multi-access protocol with signalling for ad hoc networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A new approach to channel access scheduling for Ad Hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
SEEDEX: a MAC protocol for ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Transmission power control for multiple access wireless packet networks
LCN '00 Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
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LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Optimal broadcast scheduling in packet radio networks using mean field annealing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Analysis of a probabilistic topology-unaware TDMA MAC policy for ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Since the energy budget of mobile nodes is limited, the performance of a networking protocol for such users should be evaluated in terms of its energy efficiency, in addition to the more traditional metrics such as throughput. In this paper, two topology-unaware MAC protocols-in which the scheduling time slots are allocated irrespectively of the underline topology-are considered and their energy consumption is derived. It turns out that the per frame power consumption is lower for the less throughput-efficient protocol, suggesting that energy savings are achieved at the expense of throughput. A finer energy consumption study is carried out in the sequel, focusing on the amount of energy consumed to successfully transmit a certain number of packets, or equivalently, on the per successful transmission power consumption. It is shown that the more throughput-efficient protocol consumes less energy per successful transmission under certain conditions (which are derived), due to the lower number of transmission attempts before a data packet is successfully transmitted. The same energy-efficiency relation is observed under certain conditions (which are derived) when data packets are delay constrained and, thus, may become obsolete if not transmitted successfully within a specific time interval. The conditions under which the per successful transmission power consumption is minimized for delay-constrained packets, are also established in this work and it is observed that when the system throughput is maximized, the power consumed is close to the minimum. Simulation results support the claims and the expectations of the aforementioned analysis.