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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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276 <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Sensor</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>For example, if the RBAR without the burst mode is compared with theproposed DP-based protocol which uses burst mode, then it will be difficultto identify whether the changes in throughput or energy-efficiencyare a result of the algorithms themselves or due to the introduction of theburst mode. For that reason, the authors made a straightforward modificationof the RBAR protocol to enable the burst mode. Therefore, themodified RBAR protocol is used when comparing the performance of theproposed DP-based protocol.The st<strong>and</strong>ard AODV routing protocol was employed for testing theproposed work whereas any routing protocol can be employed with therate adaptation scheme because the proposed work is independent of arouting protocol. The following values were used for all the simulations,unless otherwise specified: 5 modulation schemes were used with datarates equal to 1, 2, 4, 6, <strong>and</strong> 8 Mbps, <strong>and</strong> target SNR values of 10, 14, 22,28, 34 dB, respectively. The maximum power used for transmission wasselected as 0.2818 W. For the proposed DPC, the design parameters wereselected as K v = 001 . <strong>and</strong> σ = 001 . . The safety margin in the case of retransmissionswas set to 1.5 for the proposed DPC scheme. The fading channelwith path loss, shadowing, <strong>and</strong> Rayleigh fading from Zawodniok <strong>and</strong>Jagannathan (2004) was used in the simulations.6.10.1 One-Hop TopologyTable 6.2 presents the average throughput achieved by the protocols withflow rates of 0.5, 2, <strong>and</strong> 4 Mbps. Table 6.3 presents the energy efficiencyof both protocols for different rates. Both protocols can transmit at similarthroughput. However, the efficiency of the DP-based protocol outperformsthe RBAR, such that the proposed protocol can transmit 3.5 timesmore data for the same energy consumed, because of the addition of DPCin rate adaptation.6.10.2 Two-Hop TopologyFigure 6.18 illustrates the total throughput achieved for this networkwith varying per flow rates. The proposed protocol outperforms theTABLE 6.2Throughput (kbps)ProtocolType 0.5 Mbps 1.2 Mbps 4 MbpsRBAR 499 1083 1424DP 499 1082 1434

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