Toaward Energy Saving In Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), a recently emerged type of access network offering wireless connectivity with the use of cheap and low transmission power devices. WMNs can also be applied to Spontaneous (Emergency/ Disaster) Networking with dynamically self-organized and self-configured communication infrastructures, with a high degree of cooperation between many individual wireless stations. In this paper, we propose a green approach for power management in WMN to improve energy efficiency and network utilization. We suggest energy-aware design and energy-aware routing protocol to study the performance of WMN over dynamic traffic profiles. The combination of this two Algorithms point that, with suitable design parameters (number of shutdown MRs and hop offset), we can efficiently reduce energy consumption in WMN without significantly impacting the network performance.