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Mobile
Devices constrained by many things, one of them
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being
battery
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Sending
and receiving messages is one of the more power-
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expensive
operations
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Data
packets
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Control
packets of routing protocol
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Wireless
Interfaces also consumer substantial amount of
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power
while idle, but putting them into the low-power
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“sleep”
mode has to be done carefully
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Goal:
study power consumption of popular MANET
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routing
protocols
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to
understand their energy behaviour, and
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to
draw lessons for the design of more efficient routing protocols
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