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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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6Distributed Power Control <strong>and</strong> Rate<strong>Ad</strong>aptation for <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>In the last chapter, the distributed power control (DPC) scheme wasdemonstrated for cellular networks both analytically <strong>and</strong> via simulation.<strong>Ad</strong> hoc wireless networks have gained great importance in recent years.<strong>Wireless</strong> communication technology has come into wide use with theadvent of the IEEE 802.11 st<strong>and</strong>ard. An ad hoc network is a group ofwireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network withoutany fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applicationsfor ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in theuse of wireless sensor networks. For wireless networks, it was demonstratedthat energy efficiency is an important QoS metric besides throughput,loss rate, <strong>and</strong> end-to-end delay. Therefore DPC is necessary even forad hoc wireless <strong>and</strong> sensor networks. The DPC derived for the cellularnetworks is extended to ad hoc wireless networks.In this chapter, DPC scheme from the previous chapter is reviewed <strong>and</strong>a medium access control (MAC) protocol based on the DPC is introducedfor wireless ad hoc networks (Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan 2004) in thepresence of radio channel uncertainties such as path loss, shadowing, <strong>and</strong>Rayleigh fading. The DPC quickly estimates the time-varying nature ofthe channel <strong>and</strong> uses the information to select a suitable transmitter powervalue, even for ad hoc wireless <strong>and</strong> sensor networks, to maintain a targetsignal-to-interference ratio (SIR) at the receiver. To accommodate the suddenchanges in channel state, a safety factor is incorporated in the powerselection. The st<strong>and</strong>ard assumption of a constant interference during alink’s power update used in other research works is relaxed.The performance of the DPC for ad hoc wireless networks can be demonstratedanalytically because it is exactly the same as that of the cellularnetworks. Moreover, the power used for all RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK framesis selected using the proposed DPC; hence, energy savings <strong>and</strong> modestimprovement in spatial reuse can be achieved. The hidden-terminal problem,which is commonly encountered in ad hoc wireless networks, can beovercome by periodically increasing the power. The NS-2 simulator is233

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