Due to fact that mobile ad hoc nodes have a critical need to preserve
battery power, MANET routing protocols need to consider power saving
techniques during operations. In this Internet-Draft we discuss PARO,
a Power-Aware Routing Optimization protocol that minimizes the
transmission power necessary to forward packets between wireless
devices. Using PARO, intermediate nodes can forward packets between
source-destination pairs thus reducing the aggregate transmission
power consumed by wireless devices. An important property of PAR0 is
that it outperforms traditional broadcast-based routing protocols due
to its power efficient point-to-point on-demand nature. The protocol
is designed to operate as a stand-alone multihop routing protocol for
local-area wireless networks (e.g., single-hop home networks, single-hop
sensor networks, WL,ANs, etc.) and as a power-aware enhancement
for routing in wide-area MANETs.
By: J. Gomez, A. T. Campbell (Columbia University) M. Naghshineh, C. Bisdikian
Published in: RC21992 in 2001
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