Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
On the scalability of IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Efficient and Scalable IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc-Mode Timing Synchronization Function
AINA '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
ISCC '01 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Power-saving protocols for IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
Quorum-based asynchronous power-saving protocols for IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
An Adaptive Quorum-Based Energy Conserving Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Fully Adaptive Power Saving Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks Using the Hyper Quorum System
ICDCS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Silent networking for energy-constrained nodes
Computer Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Following recent advances in the performance of ad hoc networks, the limited life of batteries in mobile devices poses a bottleneck in their development. Consequently, how to minimize power consumption in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of ad hoc networks is an essential issue. The power-saving mode (PSM) of IEEE 802.11 involves the Timing Synchronization Function to reduce power consumption for single-hop mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, the IEEE 802.11 PSM is known to result in unnecessary energy consumption as well as the problems of overheating and back-off time delay. Hence, this study presents an efficient power-saving MAC protocol, called p-MANET, based on a Multi-hop Time Synchronization Protocol, which involves a hibernation mechanism, a beacon inhibition mechanism, and a low-latency next-hop selection mechanism for general-purpose multi-hop MANETs. The main purposes of the p-MANET protocol are to reduce significantly the power consumption and the transmission latency. In the hibernation mechanism, each p-MANET node needs only to wake up during one out of every N beacon interval, where N is the number of beacon intervals in a cycle. Thus, efficient power consumption is achieved. Furthermore, a beacon inhibition mechanism is proposed to prevent the beacon storm problem that is caused by synchronization and neighbor discovery messages. Finally, the low-latency next-hop selection mechanism is designed to yield low transmission latency. Each p-MANET node is aware of the active beacon intervals of its neighbors by using a hash function, such that it can easily forward packets to a neighbor in active mode or with the least remaining time to wake up. As a consequence, upper-layer routing protocols can cooperate with p-MANET to select the next-hop neighbor with the best forwarding delay. To verify the proposed design and demonstrate the favorable performance of the proposed p-MANET, we present the theoretical analysis related to p-MANET and also perform experimental simulations. The numerical results show that p-MANET reduces power consumption and routing latency and performs well in extending lifetime with a small neighbor discovery time. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p-MANET is an efficient power-saving MAC protocol, which involves a hibernation mechanism, a beacon inhibition mechanism, and a low-latency next-hop selection mechanism for general-purpose multi-hop MANETs. p-MANET can support any routing protocols or applications. (We present the theoretical analysis and also perform experimental simulations that show that p-MANET reduces power consumption and routing latency and performs well in extending lifetime.)