Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Motivation
nMobile Devices constrained by many things, one of them being battery
nSending and receiving messages is one of the more power-expensive operations
ØData packets
ØControl packets of routing protocol
nWireless Interfaces also consumer substantial
amount of power while
idle, but putting them into the low-power “sleep” mode has to be done carefully
nGoal: study power consumption of popular
MANET routing
protocols
Øto understand their energy behaviour, and
Øto draw lessons for the design of more efficient routing
protocols