Research Article

Improving Energy Efficiency in Idle Listening of IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Table 2

Simulation results in terms of energy per bit () and the fraction of energy consumption due to idle listening () under multirate environment (Scenario 2).

STA ID (Mb/s) BASETRIPL
(J/bit) (%) (J/bit) (%)

6 0.82 63.35 0.80 64.69
12 0.83 75.19 0.40 64.77
24 0.59 77.03 0.20 64.66
48 0.58 80.56 0.10 64.59