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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 255mainly on maximizing the throughput, regardless of transmission power,channel state, <strong>and</strong> network congestion. For instance, the auto rate fallback(ARF) (Kamerman <strong>and</strong> Monteban 1997) protocol incrementally alters thetransmission rate after experiencing a number of consecutive correct orerroneous packet receptions. As a result, ARF slowly converges to themore appropriate rate dropping significant number of packets because oflow signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or SIR. In some cases, transmission rateis much lower than acceptable reducing the throughput. By contrast, theRBAR protocol proposed in (Holl<strong>and</strong> et al. 2001) uses the predefined lower<strong>and</strong> upper SNR thresholds to select an appropriate modulation scheme<strong>and</strong> hence the rate. By using the measured SNR value from the previousMAC frame, a more suitable modulation scheme is selected using SNRthresholds. However, the channel measurements used to select a givenrate are from the previous transmission, <strong>and</strong> they do not accuratelydescribe the channel state for the subsequent transmission. A commonproblem that is found in both ARF <strong>and</strong> RBAR, <strong>and</strong> with many availableprotocols, is the transmission of data at the maximum power reducingenergy efficiency. <strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, the protocols (Holl<strong>and</strong> et al. 2001, Kamerman<strong>and</strong> Monteban 1997) ignore the effect of congestion on throughput<strong>and</strong> energy efficiency.A more appropriate energy-efficient rate adaptation would be to useseveral modulation schemes <strong>and</strong> dynamically selecting a suitable oneonline, based on the channel state <strong>and</strong> the network traffic. The basicconcept was analyzed in Schurgers et al. (2001) <strong>and</strong> proved to be effective.Relevant parameters for the selection of the modulation scheme includebit-error-rate (BER) <strong>and</strong> SNR. The former indicates the probability of erroroccurrence during transmission for a given SNR. The latter defines thereceived signal quality. Hence, for a given modulation scheme, a thresholdSNR can be calculated according to a desired BER level. In general, forsmall target BER (low level of errors) a high SNR is typically required.The heuristic rate adaptation protocol from (Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan2005) uses the DPC scheme (Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan 2004) to predictthe channel state <strong>and</strong> to meet the target SNR. Thus, this scheme can selecta more appropriate rate when compared to available protocols (Holl<strong>and</strong>et al. 2001, Kamerman <strong>and</strong> Monteban 1997). In addition, DPC in rateadaptation reduces energy consumption by selecting a minimal powerneeded for successful transmission. <strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, this scheme selects awide range of suitable rates by taking into account the dem<strong>and</strong>edthroughput <strong>and</strong> the energy efficiency to accommodate the networkcongestion <strong>and</strong> to conserve energy through the selection of a backoff interval.The protocol from Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan (2005) uses the backoffmechanism to mitigate the impact of congestion. As a result, packet forwardingis prevented either if the next-hop node cannot buffer them or thechannel state is not conducive. Under such circumstances, the maximum

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