ABSTRACT
Power saving is one of the key issues in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which can be realized both in medium access control or media access control (MAC) layer and network layer. This chapter focuses on the power savings in the network layer and proposes a power adjusting algorithm (PAA). It also focuses on designing an algorithm to control mobility by maintaining routes and also save energy by balancing the energy consumption on route discovery and packets delivering. The chapter discusses the research background on energy-saving routing protocols. It introduces the propagation model, mobility model, and network assumptions. The chapter also discusses the parameters of the PAA, an energy model to obtain the desired parameter for PAA in order to minimize the energy consumption is proposed. It examines the PAA and perform simulations to analyses and compare the dynamic source routing (DSR) with PAA and DSR without PAA on the power saving performance.
