A New Power-Saving mechanism for WLAN Broadcast/Multicast services

Author

Kim, Hyu-Dae ; Cho, Dong-ho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

7-10 May 2006

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

11

Abstract

When a WLAN station has low battery-power, a normal power-saving mechanism is not desirable and sparse wake-up should be used. In that case, the station cannot remain awake throughout every delivery-traffic-indication-message (DTIM) interval, which results in the loss of broadcast and multicast packets. In this paper, we propose a double-buffering power-saving mechanism for stations with low battery power. Broadcast and multicast packets can be delivered to stations with low battery power more reliably with the new scheme

Keywords

multicast communication; wireless LAN; WLAN broadcast-multicast services; broadcast packets; delivery-traffic-indication-message interval; double-buffering power-saving mechanism; multicast packets; wireless local area networks; Batteries; Broadcast technology; Broadcasting; Computer science; Control systems; Media Access Protocol; Personal digital assistants; Power system reliability; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC 2006-Spring. IEEE 63rd

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9391-0

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2006.1682765

Filename

1682765