Research Article

Energy Efficient Downlink Transmission in Wireless LANs by Using Low-Power Wake-Up Radio

Table 1

Main notations for the analysis.

Time length of a DIFS
Time length of an SIFS
Time length of an EIFS
Time length of a wake-up message
Time length of a CTS frame
Time length of a DATA frame
Time length of an ACK frame

Power consumption at transmission state (1 watt)
Power consumption at receiving state (1 watt)
Power consumption at idle state (1 watt)
Power consumption of WuR (1 mill-watt)

Time length of a contention slot
Amount of slots in a contention window
Amount of slots corresponding to wake-up period
Amount of slots corresponding to sleep period
Number of nodes participating in the contention
Number of nodes with packets ready
Number of combinations choosing out of elements