Effect of Selfish Behavior on Power Consumption in Mobile Adhoc Network

Abstract

Wireless Ad Hoc Network has witnessed an explosion of interest from researchers in recent years for its applications in classrooms, battle elds and disaster relief activities. A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of wireless nodes communicating with each other in the absence of any infrastructure. MANET research is gaining ground due to the ubiquity of small, inexpensive wireless communicating devices. Since, not many MANETs have been deployed, As wireless networks become an integral component of the modern communication infrastructure, energy e ciency will be an important design consideration due to the limited battery life of mobile terminals. Wireless devices have maximum utility when they can be used anywhere at anytime. One of the greatest limitations to that goal, however, is nite power supplies. Since batteries provide limited power, a general constraint of wireless communication is the short continuous operation time of mobile terminals. Therefore, Energy saving is one of the most challenging problems in wireless communication. Since the network interface is a signi cant consumer of power, my research has been devoted to nd the e ect of sel sh behavior on power consumption in wireless networks in an e ort to enhance energy e ciency. This report presents a comprehensive summary of work addressing the e ect of sel sh behavior on power consumption in wireless network.It shows how much energy we can save by behaving sel shly and which sel sh behavior is most e ective to save the energy.