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Power-Stepped Protocol: Enhancing Spatial Utilization In A Clustered Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Chansu Yu, Kang G. Shin, Ben Lee
Power-Stepped Protocol: Enhancing Spatial Utilization In A Clustered Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Chansu Yu, Kang G. Shin, Ben Lee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications
While most previous studies on mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) rely on the assumption that nodes are randomly distributed in the network coverage area, this assumption is unlikely to hold, as nodes tend to be cluttered around hot spots like the site of an accident or disaster. We refer to this as a clustered layout. Intuitively, a MANET with the clustered layout may suffer from serious performance degradation due to the excessive collisions in congested hot spots and space underutilization of sparse areas. In this paper, we propose a power-controlled network protocol, called the power-stepped protocol (PSP), that maximizes the …