Experimental evaluation and comparative study on energy efficiency of the evolving IEEE 802.11 standards

e-Energy 2014 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-119

  Keranidis, Stratos ^a,b   Kazdaridis, Giannis ^a,b   Makris, Nikos ^a,b   Korakis, Thanasis ^a,b   Koutsopoulos, Iordanis ^b,c   Tassiulas, Leandros ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

802.11a g; 802.11n; comparison; efficiency; energy; experiments; testbed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907012625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2602044.2602069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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