Application-driven network capacity adaptation for energy efficient ad-hoc networks

duce the energy consumption of mobile stations in order to increase their battery lifetime. Many related works, assuming the presence of a fixed, high traffic load, concentrate on reducing the energy consumed during ongoing packet transmission. However, even when the traffic load dynamically changes, it is important to improve the performance such as throughput and energy consumption. In this paper, we propose an energy saving mechanism which works well independently of the traffic load, even when the traffic load is low. We present an algorithm called the network capacity adap-