Power consumption of data distribution management for on-line simulations

With the growing use of mobile devices, power aware algorithms have become essential. Data distribution management (DDM) is an approach to disseminate information that was proposed in the High Level Architecture (HLA) for modeling and simulation. This paper explores the power consumption of mobile devices used by pedestrians in an urban environment communicating through HLA DDM services operating over a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The computation and communication power requirements of Grid-Based and Region-Based implementation approaches to DDM are contrasted and quantitatively evaluated through experimentation and simulation.