On Power Efficient Communication over Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Joint Routing, Scheduling and Power Control

Abstract

With increasing interest in energy constrained multi-hop wireless networks [2], a fundamental problem is one of determining energy efficient communication strategies over these multi-hop networks. The simplest problem is one where a given source node wants to communicate with a given destination, with a given rate over a multi-hop wireless network, using minimum power. Here the power refers to the total amount of power consumed over the entire network in order to achieve this rate between the source and the destination. There are three decisions that have to be made (jointly) in order to minimize the power requirement. • The path(s) that..