A Low Power Adaptive Mac Protocol for Infrastructure Wireless LANS

This paper proposes a low power adaptive polling (LPOAP) MAC protocol for infrastructure wireless LANs (WLANs) which is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. The protocol utilizes a learning automaton at the access point of the WLAN. The automaton utilizes network feedback to select the mobile station that will be granted permission to transmit. We implement a low-power option via specifically utilizing a control packet of the proposed protocol to reduce its energy consumption in medium-to high network loads.