Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Energy Efficient Management for Wireless Mesh Networks with Green Routers

  • Published:
Mobile Networks and Applications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of a high-density of hundreds to thousands of mesh routers (MRs) deployed in corporate offices and university campuses. The main purpose of this deployment is to meet user demands for high bandwidth, mobility, and reliability. However, our recent consideration of such networks revealed that they are rarely used at their peak capacity besides the fact that the entire MRS remains active continuously. Thus, during lower traffic periods the energy consumption is the same as in busy hours, while it would be possible to save a large amount of power. Green networking has recently been proposed; consist of rethink how networks are constructed and operated so that not only the cost and performance are taken into consideration but also their energy consumption and carbon footprint. In this paper, we draw attention that a large part of idle MRs results in considerable energy losses. Thousands of WMNs worldwide jointly aggravate this problem, while raising serious worry about the energy wastage that will happen in the future. In response to this problem, we first propose an optimal approach called Optimal Energy Efficiency Management Design (OEEMD) by formulating the problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) model to investigate the power consumption in WMN. As this problem is known to be NP-hard, we then propose an efficient heuristic algorithm called Green Energy Efficiency Management Design (GEEMD) for wireless mesh networks. GEEMD uses a sleep mechanism to power on/off underutilized MRs, based on the traffic load and solar energy generation. For the performance evaluation, we used OEEMD and GEEMD to study the performance of WMN deployment scenario in the university and campus area of Tlemcen city in Algeria over dynamic traffic profiles. Illustrative numerical examples show that, with suitable design parameters, we can efficiently reduce energy consumption in WMN without significantly impacting the network performance.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Zeadally S, Ullah Khan S, Chilamkurti N (2012) Energy-efficient networking: past, present, and future. J Supercomput 62(3):1093–1118

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Capone A, Malandra F, Sansò B (2012) Energy savings in wireless mesh networks in a time-variable context. Mob Netw Appl 17(2):298–311

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Chowdhury P, Tornatore M, Sarkar S, Mukherjee B (2010) Building a green wireless-optical broadband access network (woban). J Lightwave Technol 28(16):2219–2229

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Akyildiz IF, Wang X (2005) A survey on wireless mesh networks. IEEE Commun Mag 43(9):S23–S30

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Al-Hazmi Y, de Meer H, Hummel KA, Meyer H (2011) Energy-efficient wireless mesh infrastructures. IEEE Netw 25(2):32–38

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Bianzino A, Chaudet C, Rossi D, Rougier J (2012) A survey of green networking research. IEEE Commun Surv Tutorials 14(1):3–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Wang X, Vasilakos AV, Chen M, Liu Y, Kwon TT (2012) A survey of green mobile networks: opportunities and challenges. Mob Netw Appl 17(1):4–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Mamechaoui S, Didi F, Pujolle G. “Energy saving for wireless mesh network”. MESH 2012: The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks, pp 41–47, IARIA 2012

  9. Mamechaoui S, Didi F, Pujolle G (2012) “Power conservation for wireless mesh network”. ICM 2012, 24th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), 2012 IEEE, pp 1–4

  10. Mamechaoui S, Didi F, Pujolle G (2013) “A survey on energy efficiency for wireless mesh network”. Int J Comput Netw Commun (IJCNC) 5(2)

  11. Chiaraviglio L, Mellia M, Neri F (2009) “Reducing power consumption in backbone networks”. ICC ’09 I.E. International Conference on Communications, pp 1–6

  12. Boiardi S, Capone A, Sanso B (2012) “Energy-aware planning and management of wireless mesh networks”. Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE, pp 3049–3055

  13. Lorincz J, Capone A, Bogarelli M (2010) “Energy savings in wireless access networks through optimized network management”. 2010 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), IEEE 2010. pp 449–454

  14. Luo J, Rosenberg C, Girard A (2010) Engineering wireless mesh networks: joint scheduling, routing, power control, and rate adaptation. IEEE/ACM Trans Networking 18(5):1387–1400

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Amokrane A, Langar R, Boutaba R, Pujolle G (2012) “A green framework for energy efficient management in TDMA-based wireless mesh networks”. IEEE/ACM CNSM 2012, pp 322–328

  16. Amokrane A, Langar R, Boutaba R, Pujolle G. “Online flow-based energy efficient management in wireless mesh networks”. Proc. of 2013 I.E. Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, IEEE 2013

  17. Farbod A, Todd TD (2007) Resource allocation and outage control for solar-powered wlan mesh networks. IEEE Trans Mob Comput 6(8):960–970

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Cai LX, Liu Y, Luan TH, Shen (Sherman) X, Mark JW, Poor HV (2011) “Adaptive resource management in sustainable energy powered wireless mesh networks”. In IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), pp 1–5

  19. Cai LX, Poor HV, Liu Y, Luan TH (2011) Dimensioning network deployment and resource management in green mesh networks. IEEE Wirel Commun 18(5):58–65

  20. Todd TD, Sayegh AA, Smadi MN, Zhao DZD (2008) The need for access point power saving in solar powered wlan mesh networks. IEEE Netw 22(3):4–10

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Huan X, Wang B, Mo Y (2013) “Rechargeable router placement with guaranteed QoS for green WLAN mesh networks”. International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing (WCSP), IEEE 2013, pp 1–6

  22. Gomez K, Riggio R, Rasheed T, Granelli F (2011) “Analysing the energy consumption behaviour of WiFi networks”. IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (GreenCom), pp 98–104

  23. Solar electric production. http://www.greenmybungalow.com/. Accessed 12 Feb 2015

  24. Aslam B, Amjad F, Zou CC (2012) Optimal roadside units placement in urban areas for vehicular networks. In 2012 I.E. Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp 000423–000429

  25. ILOG CPLEX (2009) High-performance software for mathematical programming and optimization. http://www.ilog.com/products/cplex/. Accessed 13 Nov 2013

  26. Restrepo J, Gruber C, Machuca C (2009) Energy profile aware routing. IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops ICC’2009, pp 1–5

  27. Bhaumik S, Narlikar G, Chattopadhyay S, Kanugovi S (2010) Breathe to stay cool: adjusting cell sizes to reduce energy consumption. In: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking. ACM, New York, pp 41–46

  28. de la Oliva A, Banchs A, Serrano P (2012) Throughput and energy-aware routing for 802.11 based mesh networks. Comput Commun 35(12):1433–1446

  29. Subramanian M (1999) Network Management: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, 1st éd. Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc.,

  30. Real localization of APs of the Dartmouth campus http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/. Accessed 1 Feb 2015

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. STIC Laboratory, Abou Bekr Belkaid University , Tlemcen, Algeria

    Sarra Mamechaoui & Fedoua Didi

  2. DRIVE Laboratory, University of Burgundy, Nevers, France

    Sidi Mohammed Senouci

  3. LIP 6 Laboratory, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France

    Guy Pujolle

Authors
  1. Sarra Mamechaoui
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Sidi Mohammed Senouci
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Fedoua Didi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Guy Pujolle
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Sarra Mamechaoui.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Mamechaoui, S., Senouci, S.M., Didi, F. et al. Energy Efficient Management for Wireless Mesh Networks with Green Routers. Mobile Netw Appl 20, 567–582 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-015-0601-8

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-015-0601-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation