METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A method reduces power consumption in a multi-hop wireless communications network including a plurality of nodes. At a source node (110), a first power requirement for relaying a signal to a destination node (120) through an intermediate node (130) using an amplification mode is determined. A second power requirement for relaying the signal the destination node (120) through the intermediate node (130) using a regeneration mode is also determined at the source node (110). A relay request message is transmitted to the intermediate node, the relay request message including the first and second power requirements.