Power Management
n Idea: switch the transceiver off if not needed
n States of a station: sleep and awake
n Timing Synchronization Function (TSF)
stations wake up at the same time
n Infrastructure
Traffic Indication Map (TIM)
n list of unicast receivers transmitted by AP
Delivery Traffic Indication Map (DTIM)
n list of broadcast/multicast receivers transmitted by AP
n Ad-hoc
Ad-hoc Traffic Indication Map (ATIM)
n announcement of receivers by stations buffering frames
n more complicated - no central AP
n collision of ATIMs possible (scalability?)