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This work tackles the problem of reducing the power consumption of the OLSR routing protocol in vehicular networks. Nowadays, energy-aware and green communication protocols are important research topics, specially when deploying wireless mobile networks. This article introduces a fast automatic methodology to search for energy-efficient OLSR configurations by using a parallel evolutionary algorithm. The experimental analysis demonstrates that significant improvements over the standard configuration can be attained in terms of power consumption, with no noteworthy loss in the QoS.
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J. Toutouh is supported by grant AP2010-3108 from the Spanish Government. The work of S. Nesmachnow has been partially supported by ANII and PEDECIBA, Uruguay. The work of J. Toutouh and E. Alba has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry MICINN and FEDER under contracts TIN2008-06491-C04-01 (M*project) and TIN2011-28194 (roadME project), and CICE, Junta de Andalucía, under contract P07-TIC-03044 (DIRICOM project).
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Toutouh, J., Nesmachnow, S. & Alba, E. Fast energy-aware OLSR routing in VANETs by means of a parallel evolutionary algorithm. Cluster Comput 16, 435–450 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-012-0208-9
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