<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>For wireless systems, it is of vital importance to use the scarce radio resources in an efficient way. The main targets are to reduce the power consumption and increase the throughput of wireless devices. Using header compression both throughput can be increased and power can be saved. Using packet overhearing reduction power can be saved. This paper presents the achieved performance improvements when using these two methods. The simulation results are confirmed by analytical calculations. We show that we can achieve up to 35% power save when combining both methods and close to 0.1 additional normalized throughput.</p></abstract>

For wireless systems, it is of vital importance to use the scarce radio resources in an efficient way. The main targets are to reduce the power consumption and increase the throughput of wireless devices. Using header compression both throughput can be increased and power can be saved. Using packet overhearing reduction power can be saved. This paper presents the achieved performance improvements when using these two methods. The simulation results are confirmed by analytical calculations. We show that we can achieve up to 35% power save when combining both methods and close to 0.1 additional normalized throughput.

Wlan Performance Improvement by Header Compression and Packet Overhearing Reduction

Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Computer Systems and Networks, Ilkovicova 2, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovakia

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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For wireless systems, it is of vital importance to use the scarce radio resources in an efficient way. The main targets are to reduce the power consumption and...

Wlan Performance Improvement by Header Compression and Packet Overhearing Reduction

Published Online: Aug 21, 2014

Page range: 203 - 212

Received: Dec 05, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2014-0032

Keywords
WLAN, 802.11, power consumption, throughput, header compression, packet overhearing

© 2014 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Wlan Performance Improvement by Header Compression and Packet Overhearing Reduction

Published Online: Aug 21, 2014

Page range: 203 - 212

Received: Dec 05, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2014-0032

KeywordsWLAN, 802.11, power consumption, throughput, header compression, packet overhearing

© 2014 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
WLAN, 802.11, power consumption, throughput, header compression, packet overhearing