On the stability of the Ethernet
STOC '85 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
Mobile wireless computing: challenges in data management
Communications of the ACM
Analysis of Backoff Protocols for Mulitiple AccessChannels
SIAM Journal on Computing
Mobile power management for wireless communication networks
Wireless Networks
WOWMOM '98 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Optimization of Efficiency and Energy Consumption in p-Persistent CSMA-Based Wireless LANs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IWDC '01 Proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications: Evolutionary Trends of the Internet
Optimization of Bandwidth and Energy Consumption in Wireless Local Area Networks
Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques and Tools, Performance 2002, Tutorial Lectures
DEAR: a device and energy aware routing protocol for heterogeneous ad hoc networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on Routing in mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
Performance comparison of power-saving strategies for mobile web access
Performance Evaluation
Power-conservative designs in ad hoc wireless networks
The handbook of ad hoc wireless networks
A performance study of power-saving polices for Wi-Fi hotspots
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: In memroy of Olga Casals
Analysis and optimization of the energy efficiency in the 802.11 DCF
Mobile Networks and Applications
Saving energy during channel contention in 802.11 WLANs
Mobile Networks and Applications
Adaptive power saving mechanisms for DCF in IEEE 802.11
Mobile Networks and Applications
Energy efficient feedback-based scheduler for delay guarantees in IEEE 802.11e networks
Computer Communications
Review: A survey of energy efficient MAC protocols for IEEE 802.11 WLAN
Computer Communications
Modeling energy consumption in error-prone IEEE 802.11-based wireless ad-hoc networks
MMNS'06 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
Providing delay guarantees and power saving in IEEE 802.11e network
WWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
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The finite battery power of mobile computers represents one of the greatest limitations to the utility of portable computers. Furthermore, portable computers often need to perform power consuming activities, such as transmitting and receiving data by means of a random-access, wireless channel. The amount of power consumed to transfer the data on the wireless channel os negatively affected by the channel congestion level, and significantly depends on the MAC protocol adopted. This paper illustrates the design and the performance evaluation of a new mechanism that, by controlling the accesses to the shared transmission channel of a wireless LAN, leads each station to an optimal Power Consumption level. Specifically, we considered the Standard IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) access scheme for WLANS. For this protocol we analytically derived the optimal average Power Consumption levels required for a frame transmission. By exploiting these analytical results, we define a Power Save, Distributed Contention Control (PS-DCC) mechanism that can be adopted to enhance the performance of the Standard IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol from a power saving standpoint. The performance of an IEEE 802.11 network enhanced with the PS-DCC mechanism has been investigated by simulation. Results show that the enhanced protocol closely approximates the optimal power consumption level, and provides a channel utilization close to the theoretical upper bound for the IEEE 802.11 protocol capacity. In addition, even in low load situations, the enhanced protocol does not introduce additional overheads with respect to the standard protocol.