摘要
WLAN infrastructure has been deployed densely and extensively in the past few years. Since APs are always kept online, a dense WLAN will waste energy during idle hours. In this paper, we first state some principles for powering on/off APs in order to save energy. Then we design an energy saving mechanism correspondingly. The energy saving mechanism includes three processes: clustering APs, estimating user location, and powering on/off APs, which tries to choose appropriate APs being online according to user location information. Results of trace-driven simulation show that our mechanism could achieve about 42% energy conservation. More importantly, our mechanism can provide better network service for users than previous mechanisms which usually ignore user location information.
- 出版日期2016-1
- 单位清华大学