Power-saving geographic routing in the presence of location errors

  • Authors:
  • B. Peng;A. H. Kemp;Hemat K. Maheshwari

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK;School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK;School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Existing power efficient geographic routing algorithms have been shown to be able to reduce power consumption and hence prolong the lifetime of multi-hop wireless networks. However, in practical deployment scenarios where location errors inevitably exist, these algorithms are vulnerable to a substantial performance degradation in terms of energy consumption. Since location errors always exist no matter which localization technique is used, there is the need of a geographic routing protocol which can tolerate location errors and achieve reduced energy consumption. In this paper, we study the optimal distance of existing power-saving geographic routing algorithms. Through incorporating location errors into an objective function, we propose a novel geographic routing algorithm. Extensive performance evaluations show that our proposal is robust to location errors, thus statistically minimizing consumed transmit power as a packet is relayed from source to destination.