An Evaluation Study of a Fair Energy-Efficient Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Yasser Gadallah
Thomas Kunz
June 20, 2006

Presentation Outline
Protocol Objectives and Overview
Performance and Scalability Evaluation
Comparison with On-demand Power Management
Conclusions

Protocol Objectives
Complementing the functionality of existing MANET routing protocols from energy-efficiency perspective
Introducing fair low impact energy conservation to network operation
Achieving robust operation that is independent of the functionality of the routing protocol

Protocol Overview
“Protocol Independent Energy Saving”, PIES
Achieves fair energy conservation by:
Putting nodes to sleep for equal time periods.
Providing the routing algorithm with energy threshold info to help it make fair energy conscious decisions
Fully distributed algorithm – functionality does not depend on a node or a set of nodes
Modular nature – easily integrated with existing routing algorithms
Deterministic sleep pattern enables nodes to determine mathematically neighbors’ sleep state
Configurable in such a way that introduces no additional traffic to the network

Performance with increased population

Performance with increased traffic

Comparison with the On-demand Power Management - Qualitative evaluation

Comparison with the On-demand Power Management – Energy performance

Comparison with the On-demand Power Management – Effect on Network Lifetime

Conclusions
Energy is the most scarce resource for the functionality of mobile ad hoc networks
PIES is a solution that achieves fair energy conservation and works with MANET routing algorithms of all categories
Simulations show that PIES scales well with increased network population and traffic
Comparison with on-demand power management showed that PIES has superior energy, network lifetime and data delivery performance