A survey of energy efficient MAC protocols for IEEE 802.11 WLAN

Shiao-Li Tsao; Chung Huei Huang

doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2010.09.008

A survey of energy efficient MAC protocols for IEEE 802.11 WLAN

Shiao-Li Tsao^*
, Chung Huei Huang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

In recent years, IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) have been widely deployed, and more and more mobile devices have built-in WLAN interfaces. However, WLAN employs the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) medium access control (MAC) protocol, which consumes a significant portion of the energy resources of a mobile device. Hence, minimizing the energy consumption of the WLAN interface in mobile devices has recently attracted considerable interest in both academia and industry. This article provides a survey and an experimental study of the energy consumption issues and energy-efficient technologies of the MAC protocol in IEEE 802.11 WLAN.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-67
Number of pages	14
Journal	Computer Communications
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2010.09.008
State	Published - 15 Jan 2011

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Keywords

Energy efficiency
IEEE 802.11
Power management
Wireless local area network (WLAN)

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