Energy Efficiency in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Oswald Jumira, Sherali Zeadally · 2012
This chapter presents an overview of energy efficiency techniques for wireless ad hoc networks (WAHNs) that include wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). WAHNs are generally constrained in terms of energy and do not rely on pre-existing infrastructure to carry out sensing application tasks. There is a great need to invest in improving energy efficiency in WAHNs in order to facilitate increased node and network lifetime and efficient application deployment. The chapter highlights some from the energy efficiency challenges and solutions proposed by researchers over the years for WSNs and MANETs.