A robust cooperation approach for mobile multimedia adhoc networks

Abstract

In wireless ad hoc networks, nodes are energy constrained. As they communicate far off destinations using intermediate relays, it may not be in interest of a node to expend its energy in relaying and consequently reducing its own lifetime. On the other hand, if all nodes decide not to always accept relay requests, the network throughput will drop dramatically i.e., the lifetime of the whole network is reduced. Obviously, from a single node point of view, these two extreme attitudes are opposite to its interest. We addressed this issue by proposing a novel distributed approach that guarantees tasks affectation to nodes with regard to their energy constraints. The key idea behind is to guarantee to all nodes that they share tasks in function of their energy provisions. In this paper, we tackle the problem of nodes mobility and its impact on the behaviour of our proposed approach. We evaluated the performance of our approach under several scenarios and showed that it still improves the network lifetime.