Power control routing for multi hop wireless ad-hoc network

A wireless adhoc network consists of mobile nodes that may move often. The mobility of nodes results in a change in routes, requiring some mechanism for determining new routes. A number of routing protocols have already been proposed for wireless Ad-hoc networks. In these conventional protocols, transmission power of each node is kept constant This paper proposes an approach to control transmission power to improve the performance of routing protocols. By controlling power, the proposed Power Control Routing (PCR) improves the network capacity and power consumption. Simulation experiments show that PCR has high network capacity and low power consumption.