Energy efficient networking via dynamic relay node selection in wireless networks

  • Authors:
  • Maurits De Graaf

  • Affiliations:
  • Thales Nederland B.V., P.O. Box 88, 1270 AB Huizen, The Netherlands and Stochastic Operations Research (SOR), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Ensched ...

  • Venue:
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Mobile wireless ad hoc networks need to maximize their network lifetime (defined as the time until the first node runs out of energy). In the broadcast network lifetime problem, all nodes are sending broadcast traffic, and one asks for an assignment of transmit powers to nodes, and for sets of relay nodes so that the network lifetime is maximized. The selection of a dynamic relay set consisting of a single node (the 'master'), can be regarded as a special case, providing lower bounds to the optimal lifetime in the general setting. This paper provides a preliminary analysis of such a 'dynamic master selection' algorithm, comparing relaying to direct routing.