Ad-hoc Networks Energy Management Techniques

Abstract

Today’s world requires all in one mobile device with combined information management and data access capabilities, the purpose can be served by use of ad-hoc networks. Battery energy limitation at the nodes makes the Ad-hoc wireless network power buoyed as these devices can quickly drain their batteries. In ad-hoc networks the causes for dissipation of energy are the crash, control data packet overhead, inactive listening, eavesdropping, and routing. So as to improve the performance of ad-hoc networks the energy saving is an essential factor. Energy dissipation problem is prominent in ad-hoc networks and hence, optimized energy saving solution is to be needed. On the basis of energy dissipation, it could be classified into three major levels such as energy dissipation at the device level, transmission level, and routing protocol level. This paper discusses the comparative study of energy saving mechanism that needs to be utilized efficiently in Ad-hoc networks.