Energy Efficient Network Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networks
Abstract
This research project studies the design, analysis and implementation of energy efficient (also called power aware) network protocols for wireless and mobile networks. Battery power limitations are a very serious concern, and it is essential to study energy efficient protocol design at different layers of the network protocol stack. In particular, we focus on the medium access control, scheduling, quality-of-service reservation signaling, and transport protocols. We completed the design and implementation of signaling mechanism will enable mobiles to inform the base station of the current battery powers levels. The signaling mechanism was based on the 'Integrated Services' (intserv) and 'Differentiated Services' (diffserv) Quality of Service (QOS) architectures. We developed and implemented routing algorithms to accommodate user mobility and integrated them with the signaling mechanism. We completed work on scheduling algorithms for wireless data networks with multiple channels per cell. Adaptive energy efficient scheduling algorithms that dynamically schedule the transmission channel to mobiles based on traffic requests and battery power levels of mobiles were developed and studies. We developed novel error compensation algorithms that enable mobile host to dynamically adapt to channel errors-previous work considered only the base station adapting to channel errors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA400626
Entities
People
- Krishna M. Sivalingam
Organizations
- Washington State University