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Power Saving Control for Battery-Powered Portable WLAN APs

Masakatsu OGAWA, Takefumi HIRAGURI

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This paper proposes a power saving control function for battery-powered portable wireless LAN (WLAN) access points (APs) to extend the battery life. The IEEE802.11 standard does not support power saving control for APs. To enable a sleep state for an AP, the AP forces the stations (STAs) to refrain from transmitting frames using the network allocation vector (NAV) while the AP is sleeping. Thus the sleep state for the AP can be employed without causing frame loss at the STAs. Numerical analysis and computer simulation reveal that the newly proposed control technique conserves power compared to the conventional control.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E92-A No.9 pp.2253-2256
Publication Date
2009/09/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E92.A.2253
Type of Manuscript
Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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