Comparison
with the On-demand Power Management
- Qualitative evaluation
No
No
Separation
between traffic nodes and routers
Any
Any
Routing
protocols it can operate with
No
Yes
Modularity
No
Yes
Energy
fairness by design
Inference
Deterministic
Method
of determining neighbor sleep state
Yes
No
Dependent
on the nature of the routing protocol
Beacon
messages
Optional
Use
of broadcast messages
On-demand
PIES
Comparison aspect