Pointer controlled power saving medium access control protocol for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks

Ghazanfar A. Safdar; William G. Scanlon

Pointer controlled power saving medium access control protocol for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks

Ghazanfar A. Safdar
, William G. Scanlon

Queen's University Belfast

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents a new power saving medium access control protocol, pointer controlled slot allocation and resynchronisation protocol (PCSAR), for centralised control wireless networks. The proposed protocol was designed to operate within the IEEE 802.11 point coordination function (PCF). The steady state performance of PCSAR was compared with the standard PCF power saving mode, PCFPS. The simulation results demonstrate a significant improvement in energy efficiency using new protocol. For a wireless picocell consisting of an access point and 8 stations in power saving mode, the average energy saving with PCSAR was up to 38 %, depending on load. The results also show that PCSAR offers significantly reduced uplink access delay over PCF-PS while modestly improving both uplink and downlink throughput.

Original language	English
Pages	915-919
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2004 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 5 Sep 2004 → 8 Sep 2004

Conference

Conference	2004 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2004
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	5/09/04 → 8/09/04

Keywords

IEEE 802.11
Medium Access Control (MAC)
Power saving
Wireless networking

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Pointer controlled power saving medium access control protocol for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks. / Safdar, Ghazanfar A.; Scanlon, William G.
2004. 915-919 Paper presented at 2004 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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