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Nap: Practical Micro-Sleeps for 802.11 WLANs
In this paper, we revisit the idea of putting interfaces to sleep during
'packet overhearing' (i.e., when there are ongoing transmissions addressed to
other stations) from a practical standpoint. To this aim, we perform a robust
experimental characterisation of the timing and consumption behaviour of a
commercial 802.11 card. We design Nap, a local standard-compliant
energy-saving mechanism that leverages micro-sleep opportunities inherent to
the CSMA operation of 802.11 WLANs. This mechanism is backwards compatible and
incrementally deployable, and takes into account the timing limitations of
existing hardware, as well as practical CSMA-related issues (e.g., capture
effect). According to the performance assessment carried out through
trace-based simulation, the use of our scheme would result in a 57% reduction
in the time spent in overhearing, thus leading to an energy saving of 15.8% of
the activity time.Comment: 15 pages, 12 figure
Simulation Analysis of Medium Access Techniques
This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access
Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is
performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division
Multiple Access (FDMA), Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
(CSMA/CA), Pure ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA). Performance metrics used for
comparison are throughput (T), delay (D) and offered load (G). The main goal
for comparison is to show which technique gives highest Throughput and lowest
Delay with increase in Load. Energy efficiency is major issue in WBAN that is
why there is need to know which technique performs best for energy conservation
and also gives minimum delay.Comment: NGWMN with 7th IEEE International Conference on Broadband and
Wireless Computing, Com- munication and Applications (BWCCA 2012), Victoria,
Canada, 201
On-board processing satellite network architecture and control study
The market for telecommunications services needs to be segmented into user classes having similar transmission requirements and hence similar network architectures. Use of the following transmission architecture was considered: satellite switched TDMA; TDMA up, TDM down; scanning (hopping) beam TDMA; FDMA up, TDM down; satellite switched MF/TDMA; and switching Hub earth stations with double hop transmission. A candidate network architecture will be selected that: comprises multiple access subnetworks optimized for each user; interconnects the subnetworks by means of a baseband processor; and optimizes the marriage of interconnection and access techniques. An overall network control architecture will be provided that will serve the needs of the baseband and satellite switched RF interconnected subnetworks. The results of the studies shall be used to identify elements of network architecture and control that require the greatest degree of technology development to realize an operational system. This will be specified in terms of: requirements of the enabling technology; difference from the current available technology; and estimate of the development requirements needed to achieve an operational system. The results obtained for each of these tasks are presented
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