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