Opportunistic Power Control for Wireless Ad hoc Networks

Opportunistic power control can be used as a generalized framework for distributed power control in wireless networlpower control to determine the power of mobile nodes in each time slot in a time4ivision multiple access (TDMA) wireless ad hoc network. I{e compare the network throughput and power consumption of this scheme with the target tracking ctpproach that aim at hitting a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) target in all time slols. Simulation results show thal opportunistic algorithm inherently has a scheduling property that results in a signficant improvement in throughput and power consumption of the network and makes it more appropriate for distributed power control in vireless tld hoc networks

Keywords:

Ad Hoc Networks , power control , distributed Algorithrn