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42 Dinesh Rajan<br />

setting, a node may choose to use a different power level to communicate with each<br />

of its neighboring nodes. At the other extreme, the protocol design may restrict all<br />

nodes in the network to use the same transmission power. Recognize that c 1 i j depends<br />

on the transmission power used by node i. Computing the minimum network<br />

power that ensures a fully connected network can be formally posed as the following<br />

optimization problem:<br />

min ∑ Pi<br />

i∈M<br />

(2.33)<br />

s.t. Pi < P max<br />

i<br />

(2.34)<br />

c1 i j (Pi) = c 1 ji(Pj) (2.35)<br />

∃ k : c k i j = 1 ∀ i, j ∈ M, i �= j (2.36)<br />

Recognize that (2.35) imposes the condition that each link is bidirectional <strong>and</strong> (2.36)<br />

ensures that the network is fully connected.<br />

Several protocols have been developed to solve problems of this nature in a distributed<br />

manner. We now describe a popular protocol, COMPOW [28], which selects<br />

a common transmit power for all nodes, thereby ensuring each link is bidirectional<br />

(Pi = Pj,∀i, j).<br />

COMPOW computes <strong>and</strong> maintains multiple routing tables at each node, one for<br />

each possible transmit power level. A routing table is essentially a look up table<br />

that a node uses to determine the next hop to forward the packets for each possible<br />

destination. COMPOW then determines the smallest power level at each node such<br />

that the list of nodes that can be reached (using a finite number of hops) from that<br />

particular node using the selected power, equals the list of nodes that can be reached<br />

from that node using the highest transmission power. In other words, network connectivity<br />

is not sacrificed in reducing the transmit power levels.<br />

The key features of COMPOW are: i) the authors show that there is no significant<br />

loss in asymptotic (large number of nodes) network capacity by using a common<br />

transmit power for all nodes, ii) existence of low power routes using a low common<br />

transmit power for all nodes, <strong>and</strong> iii) the contention at the data link layer is also<br />

minimized.<br />

2.6 Advanced Transceiver Methods<br />

In this section we discuss selected advanced techniques used in state of the art wireless<br />

systems. These techniques are also an area of active research <strong>and</strong> form a critical<br />

component of future wireless networks.

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