Performance Evaluation of Power Saving Scheme for Wireless LAN with Station Aggregation

Abstract

The widespread deployment of wireless LANs (WLANs) has increased the importance of developing power-saving technologies. We have been involved in the research and development of Radio-On-Demand Networks (ROD) that reduce energy consumption in the operation of WLANs. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of a power-saving scheme with that uses station aggregation for ROD WLANs by simulations. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme can contribute in reducing the power consumption of access points (APs).