An efficient energy aware clusterhead formation infrastructure protocol for MANETs

Tarek Sheltami, Hussein T. Mouftah

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel cluster-based infrastructure creation protocol, namely: warning energy aware clusterhead (WEAC). WEAC establishes a dynamic wireless mobile infrastructure. As in all cluster-based infrastructure protocols, in the WEAC protocol, a mobile node is elected from a set of nominees to act as a temporary base station for a period of time within its zone. We study the characteristics and performance of the WEAC protocol by means of simulation. It is shown that the WEAC protocol scales well to large networks of mobile stations, and it outperforms other routing energy saving amongst the network. The WEAC protocol would facilitate the development of a comprehensive and promising framework for quality of service (QoS) management in wireless mobile ad hoc networks once the proper integration of the MAC protocol with the routing and call admission control mechanisms is established. At that time, it would lay the groundwork for assigning bandwidth, and/or implementing priorities, and hence for QoS-based routing by conveying the quality of a path prior to call setup.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2003
Pages203-208
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISSN (Print)1530-1346

Keywords

  • Medium Access Control
  • Performance EvaluationWireless Mobile Ad hoc Communications
  • Quality of Service
  • Routing
  • Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Communications
  • Wireless Mobile Infrastructure

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • General Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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