A technique for the energy efficiency estimation of Wireless Local Area Network IEEE 802.11 protocols

The proposed paper is devoted to the development of the energy efficiency estimation technique of data transmission protocols of the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) using the energy-constrained devices, such as notebooks, laptops, and PDAs, in their mobile application. The criterion of energy efficiency estimation for Wi-Fi data transmission protocols is proposed. Using this criterion it is possible to prolong the mobile station battery life.