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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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248 <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Sensor</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>the header or not. The one-bit flag field will be included in all the frames.If the power value does not change from its previous value, the flag iscleared, <strong>and</strong> no additional data is sent. Otherwise, the bit is set, <strong>and</strong> thenew power value is included in the header.Let us assume that the power value will change between frames witha probability p. Then the OH per data packet — in case of RTS/CTSfollowed by a single DATA/ACK — will be expressed as:OHsave= 4frames × ( 2× 1bit _ flag + p × 2× Spower) = 8*(1bit _ flag + p * S power )(6.11)where p is the probability with which the change in power level will occurfor a frame, a one-bit flag is used to indicate whether the power value isincluded in the header or not.6.5.5.3 Protocol Efficiency for RTS/CTS/DATA/ACK SequenceThe efficiency of the protocol in terms of OH size can be evaluated as theratio of user data portion to total data transmitted (data + frame headers+ backoff) (Wei et al. 2002). The efficiency can be expressed asSpacketη =S + S + S + S + S + Spacket RTS CTS DATA ACK BACKOFF(6.12)where S packet is the size of data packet in octets; S RTS , S CTS , <strong>and</strong> S ACK representthe size of RTS, CTS, <strong>and</strong> ACK frames, respectively, S DATA denotes the size ofDATA frame header (without data packet), <strong>and</strong> S BACKOFF represents the backofftime given in octets.Because of the implementation of the DPC in the MAC protocol, theframe size of RTS/CTS/DATA/ACK will increase by an amount equal toOH from Equation 6.11 <strong>and</strong> Equation 6.12, respectively. To underst<strong>and</strong>the OH, the efficiency of the proposed implementation has been comparedwith that of the st<strong>and</strong>ard 802.11 protocol. Different size fields used for thepower levels have been compared: 4-bit, allows 32 different power levels,<strong>and</strong> 8-bit (one octet) allows 255 power levels <strong>and</strong> so on. Also, probabilitylevels are used to assess the power change between frames: p = 0.5 impliesthat the change occurs at every second frame <strong>and</strong> p = 0.1 represents thechange occurring at every tenth frame.In the worst-case scenario all the frames will contain the power fields.Because of the additional OH resulting from the incorporation of powerlevels for the proposed DPC, a 2.5% decrease in efficiency calculatedusing Equation 6.12 is observed when compared to 802.11. Thus the

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