An extension to IEEE 802.11 power save mode for NS-3

Author

Chumchu, Prawit

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. at Si Racha, Kasetsart Univ. Sriracha, Chonburi, Thailand

fYear

2015

fDate

7-10 July 2015

Firstpage

799

Lastpage

804

Abstract

In this paper, we present an extension of NS-3 for power save mode in IEEE 802.11. Currently Version 3.21 of NS-3 is not supported for IEEE 802.11 power save mode. To the best of our knowledge, no one implements the power save mode in NS-3 and shares to public. Our extension supports for unicasting and broadcasting. To prove the proposed extension, several methods have been used to validate. For examples, Wireshark application has been used to validate extended frame formats, basic mathematical model is utilized to validate upper bound throughput. In addition, we have also used programming experience to validate the proposed extension. The validation methods have shown that the simulator conforms to power save mode recommendation in IEEE 802.11 standard.

Keywords

broadcast communication; telecommunication power management; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 power saving mode; NS-3; Wireshark application; IEEE 802.11 Standard; Mathematical model; Standards; Throughput; Unicast; Upper bound; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.11; NS-3; PSM; Power Save Mode; Simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2015 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

ISSN

2288-0712

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2015.7182652

Filename

7182652