BAMAC: Energy-Efficient Battery-Aware MAC Protocol for Ad hoc Networks

Designed a MAC protocol that exploits the chemical effects and behavior of the batteries, which power the nodes of ad hoc networks. BAMAC maximizes battery lifetime using a round robin node scheduling of ad hoc node. Probabilistic model using a Discrete–time Markov chain and a simulator designed using GloMoSim was developed to analyze BAMAC. Both the models show that lifetime of ad hoc nodes that use BAMAC improve by 30% compared to 802.11 and other known MAC protocols. HBAMAC is a variation of BAMAC that works for heterogeneous batteries in the network. Tools used: GloMoSim Simulator, MATLAB 6.1.

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