Throughput and Energy Efficiency in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Friends or Foes?

Pablo Serrano; Albert Banchs; Luca Vollero; Matthias Hollick

Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks. 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings

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Throughput and Energy Efficiency in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Friends or Foes?

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    author={Pablo Serrano and Albert Banchs and Luca Vollero and Matthias Hollick},
    title={Throughput and Energy Efficiency in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Friends or Foes?},
    proceedings={Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks. 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={Energy efficiency energy optimization throughput optimization IEEE 802.11},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_28}
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Pablo Serrano
Albert Banchs
Luca Vollero
Matthias Hollick
Year: 2012
Throughput and Energy Efficiency in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Friends or Foes?
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_28

Pablo Serrano¹^,*, Albert Banchs¹^,*, Luca Vollero²^,*, Matthias Hollick³^,*

1: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
3: Technische Universität Darmstadt

*Contact email: pablo@it.uc3m.es, banchs@it.uc3m.es, l.vollero@unicampus.it, matthias.hollick@cased.de

Abstract

Understanding and optimizing the energy consumption of wireless devices is critical to maximize network lifetime and to provide guidelines for the design of new protocols and interfaces. In this work we first provide an accurate analysis of the energy performance of an IEEE 802.11 WLAN, and then we derive the configuration to maximize it. We also analyze the impact of the energy configuration of the device on the throughput performance, and discuss in which circumstances throughput and energy efficiency can be both maximized and where they constitute different challenges.

Keywords: Energy efficiency energy optimization throughput optimization IEEE 802.11

Published: 2012-10-11

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_28