2012/08/14 by Riccardo Fedrizzi, Karina Gomez, Fedrizzi, Riccardo +7 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1208.2853
to be re-submited later after extending the article
openalex publication_date 2012/08/14 · arxiv created 2012/12/20 · arxiv updated 2012/12/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Heterogeneous wireless networks with wireless devices supporting multitude of radio access technologies are witnessing increasing interest from network providers and consumers alike. Energy efficiency in such networks has become an important design consideration due to the limited battery life of mobile terminals on one side, and the ever increasing operational expenses pertaining to energy expenditure on the other. In this paper, we present a routing protocol for multi-radio multi-hop wireless networks, which aims to achieve a trade-off between energy consumption in the network and routing delay, considering both the energy consumption at the devices and the link energy costs. We also present optimum route-path selection strategies by defining a utility function to minimize the energy consumption in the network while maximizing the network lifetime. Using simulations, we verify the utility of the route-path selection strategies and the efficiency of the energy aware routing algorithm. It turns out that the proposed protocol is energy efficient in terms of path selection, with a slight compromise in the end-to-end delay.