A mobility prediction based relay deployment framework for conserving power in MANETs

Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Thomas F. La Porta, Raj Acharya, Venkatesh Sarangan

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing mobile systems consisting of special relay nodes whose mobility can be controlled by the underlying network. In this paper, we consider the design of a heterogeneous mobile ad hoc network (MANET) consisting of two kinds of mobile nodes - the traditional nodes with limited energy and a few mobility controllable relay nodes with relatively abundant energy resources. We propose the relay deployment problem that aims to optimally position these relay nodes in the network so as to minimize the overall power consumption for data transmission at the traditional nodes. We present a mobility prediction based framework to solve to the relay deployment problem in a truly mobile network. We investigate the performance of the proposed framework through extensive simulation study using three different mobility prediction schemes. We also perform experiments to understand the tradeoffs involved in deploying an increasing fraction of such relay nodes in the network. Results indicate that even when the relay nodes constitute a small percentage of the total nodes in the network, the proposed framework results in significant energy savings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMSWiM'07
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
Pages209-216
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
EventMSWiM'07: 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems - Chania, Crete Island, Greece
Duration: Oct 22 2007Oct 26 2007

Publication series

NameMSWiM'07: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Other

OtherMSWiM'07: 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityChania, Crete Island
Period10/22/0710/26/07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software
  • Modeling and Simulation

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