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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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Distributed Power Control <strong>and</strong> Rate <strong>Ad</strong>aptation 235Jung <strong>and</strong> Vaidya (2002) suggested that calculating the transmitter powerusing a DPC scheme for the DATA <strong>and</strong> ACK frames in 802.11 results inthe degradation of QoS. More collisions will occur, thus causing a largeincrease in the number of retransmissions. Consequently, this results inhigher power consumption, lower throughput per node, <strong>and</strong> lower networkutilization. <strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, previous DPC schemes for wireless ad hocnetworks (Park <strong>and</strong> Sivakumar 2002, Jung <strong>and</strong> Vaidya 2002, Gomez et al.2001, Karn 1990, Pursley et al. 2000) ignore performance guarantees usinganalytical methods. The work from Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan (2004)overcomes these limitations.In this chapter, the DPC scheme with an embedded channel predictionscheme from the previous chapter is extended to ad hoc wireless networks<strong>and</strong> a medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed using the DPCfor wireless ad hoc networks in the presence of radio channel uncertaintiessuch as path loss, shadowing, <strong>and</strong> Rayleigh fading. This embeddedscheme predicts the time-varying fading channel state for the next transmission,in contrast to (Jung <strong>and</strong> Vaidya 2002, Gomez et al. 2001) wherethe delayed channel parameters from the previous transmission are usedto select the power for the subsequent transmission. The MAC protocolfrom Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan (2004) uses the DPC scheme to updatethe power so that a target SIR is maintained at the receiver. To minimizethe effect of sudden changes in the channel state in the power selection,a safety factor is incorporated. This DPC scheme is shown to convergeanalytically to any target SIR value in the presence of channel uncertainties.Moreover, the proposed MAC protocol assigns power adaptively forall MAC frames (RTS, CTS, DATA, <strong>and</strong> ACK) while overcoming the hidden-terminalproblem. As a result, a modest improvement in spatial reusefactor is observed. Finally, a comparison with the st<strong>and</strong>ard 802.11 protocolis also included.6.2 Channel UncertaintiesUnlike wired channels that are stationary <strong>and</strong> predictable, radio channelsinvolve many uncertain factors, <strong>and</strong> as a result they are difficult to analyze.We focus our effort on these main channel uncertainties, such aspath loss, shadowing, <strong>and</strong> Rayleigh fading.6.2.1 Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR)Each receiving node on a given link measures the interference present inthe channel <strong>and</strong> communicates this information to the transmitter. In addition,each link autonomously decides how to adjust its transmitter power.

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