The effect of the 802.11 power save mechanism (PSM) on energy efficiency and performance during system activity

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2012, Conf. on Internet of Things, iThings 2012 and Conf. on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 573-580

  Tauber, Markus ^a   Bhatti, Saleem N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

802.11 WLANS; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; INDIVIDUAL TRAFFIC; OFFERED LOADS; PACKET LEVEL; POWER SAVE MECHANISMS; POWER SAVE MODE; WIRELESS ACCESS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875503614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom.2012.81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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