DocumentCode
1608610
Title
An energy-saving scheme for wireless LANs
Author
Li, Ning ; Wang, Hai ; Zheng, Shao-Ren
Author_Institution
Nanjing Inst. of Commun. Eng., China
Volume
2
fYear
2003
Firstpage
1242
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a distributed energy-saving strategy by dynamically switching-off wireless network interface card (NIC), and analyze its performance in fully connected networks. Simulation results show that in wireless LAN, when the network load is rather heavy, this scheme can save NIC´s energy consumption by more than 60%, at the meanwhile, its delay and throughput performance is still similar to that of 02.11DCF protocol. This scheme does not need global synchronization and can be applied to other MAC protocols based on collision avoidance mechanism.
Keywords
access protocols; network interfaces; telecommunication congestion control; wireless LAN; 02.11DCF protocol; MAC protocol; NIC; collision avoidance mechanism; energy consumption; energy-saving scheme; local area network; network load; throughput performance; wireless LAN; wireless network interface card; Batteries; Bismuth; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Energy consumption; Length measurement; Media Access Protocol; Switches; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communication Technology Proceedings, 2003. ICCT 2003. International Conference on
Print_ISBN
7-5635-0686-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCT.2003.1209755
Filename
1209755
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