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