Analysis of power saving multicasting routing applications for Mica2 motes-an event based MATLAB implementation

Abstract

The adhoc networks are considered to be infrastructure less networks therefore the scarcity of resources (i.e. Bandwidth and Energy) are the main issues requiring attention. In this paper the routing applications/algorithms for optimizing battery life time are analyzed while taking into account the highly unreliable real time behavior of mica2 motes. Routing applications are run in Matlab based probabilistic event driven platform having layered architecture for power centric radio model. Although the adhoc networks have dynamic topology and are randomly placed in specified environments, radio motes are placed in a twodimentional virtual grid for simulating the flow of packet information in a multicasting source-destination domain. Power Efficient Wireless Adhoc Networks have their applications in military (spying, battlefield surveillance), environmental (forest fire and flood detection, seismic structure response and bio-complexity), health (drug administration in hospitals) set ups.