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178 Energy Conservation<br />

Figure 6.8. IEEE 802.11 Power-save Mode<br />

control messages) [26] [17] [65] or through in-b<strong>and</strong> signaling [71]. The success<br />

<strong>of</strong> a periodic resume approach is to ensure that nodes that want to communicate<br />

with each other are awake at the same time to coordinate the notification <strong>and</strong><br />

ensure that the receiver remains awake to receive the pending transmission. We<br />

discuss two approaches to periodic resume: synchronous <strong>and</strong> asynchronous.<br />

Synchronous. If the periods <strong>of</strong> all nodes in the ad hoc network are synchronized,<br />

all nodes are guaranteed to have overlapping awake times, <strong>and</strong> so<br />

can easily have overlapping out-<strong>of</strong>-b<strong>and</strong> channels for notification. Such a synchronized<br />

solution is specified in IEEE 802.11 Power Save Mode (PSM) [26],<br />

which also provides low-level support for buffering packets for sleeping nodes<br />

<strong>and</strong> synchronizing nodes. In power-save mode, all nodes in the network are<br />

synchronized to wake up at the beginning <strong>of</strong> a beacon interval (see Figure 6.8).<br />

To maintain synchronization, beacon messages are sent at the beginning <strong>of</strong> every<br />

beacon interval. Synchronization in single-hop networks only requires the<br />

transmission <strong>of</strong> one beacon per interval. To determine if <strong>and</strong> when to send a<br />

beacon, nodes use a r<strong>and</strong>om back<strong>of</strong>f algorithm. Any node that hears another<br />

node’s beacon before it sends its own cancels its beacon <strong>and</strong> synchronizes to<br />

that beacon. This algorithm has been proposed for use in multiple-hop wireless<br />

networks. While there is the possibility that the algorithm will not converge in<br />

dynamic environments, the r<strong>and</strong>omness <strong>of</strong> the algorithm should enable convergence<br />

in many environments.<br />

Broadcast, multicast or unicast packets to a power-saving node are first announced<br />

during the period when all nodes are awake. The announcement is<br />

done via an ad hoc traffic indication message (ATIM) inside a small interval at<br />

the beginning <strong>of</strong> the beacon interval called the ATIM window. Channel access<br />

<strong>and</strong> contention resolution for communication during the ATIM window follow<br />

the same rules as during normal communication. A node that receives a directed<br />

ATIM during the ATIM window (i.e., it is the designated receiver) sends an ac-

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