Title :
Energy efficient distributed coordination function for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
Author :
El Bourichi, Adi ; Tsujimoto, Taizo ; Yasuura, Hiroto
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Comput. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka
Abstract :
This paper proposes an approach to save the energy consumed by a computer´s wireless network interface card (WNIC) due to the wireless communication activity in an IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN). The energy efficiency design is considered at the MAC (medium access control) layer, especially in its distributed coordination function (DCF), by reducing automatically the number of retransmissions due to collisions on the wireless channel
Keywords :
access protocols; network interfaces; wireless LAN; wireless channels; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; MAC; WLAN; distributed coordination function; energy efficiency; medium access control; wireless channel; wireless communication; wireless local area network; wireless network interface card; Access protocols; Batteries; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Energy efficiency; Large scale integration; Media Access Protocol; Transmitters; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2006 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9412-7
DOI :
10.1109/RWS.2006.1615160
