Research Article
Improving Energy Efficiency in Idle Listening of IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Table 1
IEEE 802.11 PHY/MAC parameters used in simulations.
| Parameters | Value |
| Idle listening power () | 0.9 W |
| Receiving power () | 0.9 W |
| Transmission power () | 1.4 W |
| Semisleep power () | 0.45 W |
| Sleep power () | 0.06 W |
| frame size () | 1500 bytes |
| Size of MAC header with MPDU subframe header () | bytes |
| Size of block ACK frame () | 30 bytes |
| Size of ACK frame () | 14 bytes |
| Minimum transmission rate () | 6 Mb/s |
| Transmission time of PHY preamble and header () | 20 μs |
| , | 28, 10 s |
| Slot time () | 9 s |
| Minimum/maximum size of contention window (/) | /1024 |
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