Author:
Bhargava Vishal,Raghava Nallanthighal
Abstract
Wi-Fi researchers are trying hard to extend battery life by optimizing 802.11 power save. The rising number of Wi-Fi devices and IoT devices and daily demands have reduced Station (STA) device power consumption. Better memory management at the Access Point (AP) side is also needed, so that AP can store maximum data to deliver sleepy STA devices. There are three main contributions of this study. The first one focuses on a power-saving mechanism scheme with an adaptive change to Listen Interval (LI) based on the battery status of station devices. The second contribution aims to examine better memory management for the AP buffer to store packets that will in the future deliver power-saving STA when awake. The third contribution, under the implementation of the proposed method, includes Wi-Fi corner cases covered as Beacon frames missed via STA, the keep-alive factor, and the upper-layer time taken to care for and ensure the delivery of unicast/multicast/broadcast data. The proposed approach introduced 802.11 protocols to share battery status, a protocol to announce proposed features via AP, and a protocol to change LI at runtime. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs better than 802.11 power saving in terms of power usage at the STA and access point memory management.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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