Performance analysis of effect of transmission power in mobile ad hoc network

The increase in users of mobile electronic gadgets with communication facilities day by day all around the world is resulting growth in research on multi hop wireless network getting exponential in past few years. Mobile ad hoc network is the suitable one for providing communication between these users (known as nodes) in a network as far as the application and physical structure of the network is considered. The mobile ad hoc network being infrastructure less is flexible to form. However the existence of the network for a long duration depends on the lifetime individual nodes belongs to that network. The life time of a node depends on the battery power. Most of the power consumed in a node is because of transmission. Therefore it is important to know the effect of transmission power on the performance of network so that for specific applications the transmission power of nodes can be decided based on the network area and the number of possible nodes that to work in the network which can work for long duration. In this paper we have described the analysis of the effect of transmission power on the performance of network such as packet delivery fraction, routing load, average energy consumption per node and hop count. The analysis is made for a network with different number of sources and different transmission power of nodes for a fixed network area.