Exploiting ZigBee in reducing WiFi power consumption for mobile devices

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2806-2819

  Zhang, Yifan ^a   Li, Qun ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; 802.15.4; energy savings; mobile devices; WiFi; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MOBILE DEVICES; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); ZIGBEE;

802.11; 802.15.4; CORE COMPONENTS; ENERGY SAVING PROTOCOL; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MESSAGE DELIVERY; POWER SAVE MODE; REAL-WORLD;

WI-FI;

EID: 84908507648     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2315788     Document Type: Article

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