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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 241could also become worse. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, in an active approach foreach retransmission, the power is increased by a certain factor. Unfortunately,this will increase interference as well as power consumption.However, experiments done with both methods have indicated that theactive adaptation of power yielded higher throughput <strong>and</strong> resulted infewer retransmissions when compared to the passive method. As a result,the active retransmission method is better in terms of throughput <strong>and</strong>energy efficiency, <strong>and</strong> it was chosen for the DPC scheme (Zawodniok<strong>and</strong> Jagannathan 2004).<strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, as the estimated power value for a given destinationbecomes less <strong>and</strong> less accurate, either the feedback or time delay increasesbetween any two receptions or consecutive frame transmissions respectively.After a certain idle period, the channel estimate will not reflect thefuture channel state accurately. To overcome this, after a certain idle timeinterval, the proposed algorithm will reset the transmission power to themaximum value defined for the network. Then the DPC process describedin previous subsection is restarted from the beginning.6.4.4 DPC AlgorithmIn the proposed implementation shown in Figure 6.1 a feedback loop isused between the transmitter <strong>and</strong> the receiver to successfully implementthe DPC. The source node 1 <strong>and</strong> destination node 2 are used in thisdescription.1. The source node 1 sends the RTS frame to the destination node 2using the maximum transmission power defined for the network.2. When the destination node 2 receives the RTS:• The interference is measured during the RTS reception, <strong>and</strong> asuitable transmission power increment required to successfullytransmit the next packet by the source node is calculated.3. The first CTS frame from the destination node 2 is transmittedusing the maximum power value as follows:• The CTS frame will embed the power value calculated in Step2 for the source node 1.4. When the source node 1 receives the CTS:• The interference is measured at the node 1, <strong>and</strong> the suitabletransmission power increment required by the node 2 is calculatedfor the next packet.• The transmission power at the source node 1 for the next packetis obtained by using the power increment value embeddedwithin CTS.

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