On Selection of Optimal Transmission Power for Ad hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Yurong Chen;Emin Gün Sirer;Stephen B. Wicker

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9 - Volume 9
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of selecting anenergy-efficient transmission power for ad hoc networks.Specifically, we examine how to determine a network-widetransmission power that minimizes global energy consumption,with desired lower bounds on capacity and connectivity.Based on recent empirical measurements of energyconsumption in wireless modems, we derive an analyticalmodel for network-wide energy consumption, parameterizedby density, packet size, MAC protocol and radio characteristics.We then use this model to derive the optimaltransmission power at which end-to-end energy consumptionis minimized.As the selection of transmission radius not only influencesenergy consumption but also bandwidth, latency, andnetwork connectivity, we discuss the tradeoff between thesemetrics and demonstrate that the "average neighborhoodsize" is a useful parameter for finding the optimal balancepoint. Based on this discussion, we present a practicalscheme for choosing a transmission power that can makean informed tradeoff between energy efficiency, capacity,latency, and connectivity.