Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) consists of a set of mobile hosts which can operate independently without infrastructure base stations. Energy saving is a critical issue for MANET since most mobile hosts will operate on battery powers. A cross layer coordinated framework for energy saving is proposed in this letter. On-demand power management, physical layer and medium access control layer dialogue based multi-packet reception, mobile agent based topology discovery and topology control based transmit power-aware and battery power-aware dynamic source routing are some of new ideas in this framework.
Xu Li Zheng Baoyu(Dept. of Info. Eng., Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunication, Nanjing 210003) (Dept. of Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007)
