A review on energy efficient MAC protocols for wireless LANs

Author

Ray, Niranjan Kumar ; Turuk, Ashok Kumar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Rourkela, Rourkela, India

fYear

2009

fDate

28-31 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

142

Abstract

Energy efficiency is a major issue in any wireless networks. Medium access control (MAC) protocols play an important role in providing a fair and efficient allocation of the available bandwidth. Although a lot of research has been conducted on MAC protocols, the various issues involved have mostly been presented in isolation to each other. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of energy efficiency MAC protocols for wireless LANs, integrating the issues and the challenges. We also present a classification of MAC protocols, based on the energy-efficiency, and describe them briefly.

Keywords

access protocols; energy conservation; wireless LAN; MAC Protocols; energy efficiency; medium access control; wireless LAN; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Network interfaces; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; ATIM window; beacon interval; energy efficiency; power save mode; sleep state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sri Lanka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4836-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4837-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2009.5429875

Filename

5429875