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An Overview of Energy Consumption in IEEE 802.11 Access Networks

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Wireless Networking for Moving Objects

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCCN,volume 8611))

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Nowadays users are expecting to have some type of Internet access, independently of the place where they are. This is indeed supported by the fact that wireless access networks are becoming available almost everywhere through different types of service providers. In this context, new applications have emerged with demanding requirements from the network, but also from the end-user device capabilities. Energy is the most prominent limitation of end user satisfaction within the anytime and anywhere connectivity paradigm. Since IEEE 802.11 is one of the most widely used wireless access technologies, this work provides insights on the study of its energy consumption properties, laying the grounds for further improvements towards enhanced battery lifetime. Experimental energy assessment results demonstrate the efficacy of power saving mechanisms and the relevance of wireless devices’ state management.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the COST framework, under Action IC0906 (WiNeMO), as well as by the iCIS project (CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002003), co-financed by QREN, in the scope of the Mais Centro Program and European Union’s FEDER. The first author was also supported by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through a Doctoral Grant (SFRH/BD/66181/2009).

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  1. Center for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Vitor Bernardo & Marilia Curado

  2. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Torsten Braun

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  1. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Ivan Ganchev

  2. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    MarĂ­lia Curado

  3. Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

    Andreas Kassler

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Bernardo, V., Curado, M., Braun, T. (2014). An Overview of Energy Consumption in IEEE 802.11 Access Networks. In: Ganchev, I., Curado, M., Kassler, A. (eds) Wireless Networking for Moving Objects. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10834-6_9

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