Power-saving mechanisms in emerging standards for wireless LANs: the MAC level perspective

Author

Woesner, Hacen ; Ebert, Jean-Pierre ; SchlÄger, Morten ; Wolisz, Adam

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

5

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

48

Abstract

This article provides an overview of mechanisms used for power saving in the upcoming standards for wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11 and ETSI RES 10 HIPERLAN. Power saving on the MAC level is addressed by these standards in a quite different way. We outline the main features of the mechanisms in both standards in terms of power saving. In addition we present simulation studies of the power-saving mechanism in ad hoc configurations of IEEE 802.11 networks, which demonstrate the optimization potential and some performance trade-offs quantitatively

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; digital simulation; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; ETSI RES 10 HIPERLAN; IEEE 802.11; LAN communication software; MAC level; medium access protocol; optimization; performance; power-saving mechanisms; simulation studies; wireless LAN standards; Batteries; Bit rate; Energy consumption; Local area networks; Manufacturing; Media Access Protocol; Personal digital assistants; Physical layer; Portable computers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Personal Communications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9916

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/98.683738

Filename

683738