Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICIINFS.2009.5429875
