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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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256 <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Sensor</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>possible rate will be selected in the case of high congestion to free thechannel quicker. In short, the proposed protocol maximizes throughput <strong>and</strong>saves energy by both modifying the transmission power <strong>and</strong> selecting anappropriate rate while minimizing the packet losses in the case of congestion.Thus, the inclusion of DPC in rate adaptation is extremely importantto assess the channel state to select a suitable rate <strong>and</strong> transmission power.The second scheme from Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan (2006) is basedon dynamic programming (DP) principle (Bertsekas 1987, Angel <strong>and</strong> Bellman1972, White 1969, Bambos <strong>and</strong> K<strong>and</strong>ukuri 2000), which utilizes aburst mode transmission to control incoming flow rate by varying admissibleburst size. This method of flow control is more precise than a backoffscheme used in the heuristic protocol, because it can specify an exactamount of data that will be transmitted to the receiver. In consequence,queue utilization can be maintained close to the target value. Moreover,the usage of burst mode transmission increases overall network efficiency,thus providing higher data rates for the end users. The IEEE 802.11 burstmode transmits a number of data packets within a single RTS/CTS/DATA/ACK exchange thereby reducing the number of transmitted RTS/CTS frames <strong>and</strong> minimizing an associated bit overhead. In the IEEE 802.11,a burst size is limited by the modulation rate because of the way the timeof a single RTS/CTS/DATA/ACK exchange is selected.The second rate adaptation scheme is an improvement of the powercontrolled multiple access (PCMA) protocol (Bambos <strong>and</strong> K<strong>and</strong>ukuri2000). The proposed algorithm minimizes energy consumption while providingrequired the QoS. This scheme, in contrast to the heuristic one, canprovide the desired level of service by selecting the appropriate targetqueue utilization. Maximizing throughput normally reduces the lifetimeof the node, overall network, <strong>and</strong> throughput while increasing congestionlevels. Therefore, a suitable outgoing rate has to be identified so that anoptimal trade-off results between the increasing modulation rate to maximizethroughput <strong>and</strong> the decreasing modulation rate to maximize energyefficiency.A quadratic cost function is introduced to obtain this trade-offbetween throughput <strong>and</strong> energy-efficiency. The analytical solution, whichis derived using a dynamic programming (Bertsekas 1987) approach, providesa performance guarantee, unlike the simplified heuristic scheme,where the performance of the rate adaptation scheme is not guaranteed.The DP-based scheme eliminates packet losses due to buffer overflows,which will result in energy efficiency due to reduced retransmissions.6.7.1 Rate <strong>Ad</strong>aptationA given application requires that a BER is maintained below a certain level.For wireless networks, the BER translates into a minimum SNR for whichthe packet is considered to be successfully decoded. The relation between

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