A novel scheduled power saving mechanism for 802.11 wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1368-1383

  He, Yong ^a   Yuan, Ruixi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; Multicast; Power saving

Indexed keywords

802.11 WIRELESS LAN; ACCESS POINTS; BACKGROUND TRAFFIC; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; ENERGY SAVING; IDLE TIME; IEEE 802.11; MOBILE STATION; MULTICAST; NETWORK TRAFFIC; NEW PROTOCOL; ON TIME; ONE WAY DELAY; POWER CONSERVATION; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER SAVING; POWER SAVING MECHANISM; POWER SAVINGS; POWER STATE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TIME DIVISION; TIME SLICE; TRAFFIC STREAMS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTICASTING; PULSE MODULATION; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 70349289535     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2009.53     Document Type: Article

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