A survey of energy efficient network protocols for wireless networks

Christine E. Jones, Krishna M. Sivalingam*, Prathima Agrawal, Jyh-Cheng Chen

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Abstract

Wireless networking has witnessed an explosion of interest from consumers in recent years for its applications in mobile and personal communications. As wireless networks become an integral component of the modern communication infrastructure, energy efficiency will be an important design consideration due to the limited battery life of mobile terminals. Power conservation techniques are commonly used in the hardware design of such systems. Since the network interface is a significant consumer of power, considerable research has been devoted to low-power design of the entire network protocol stack of wireless networks in an effort to enhance energy efficiency. This paper presents a comprehensive summary of recent work addressing energy efficient and low-power design within all layers of the wireless network protocol stack.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)343-358
Number of pages16
JournalWireless Networks
Volume7
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2001

Keywords

  • Energy efficient design
  • Low-power design
  • Mobile computing
  • Network protocols
  • Power aware protocols
  • Wireless networks

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