Energy-efficient wi-fi gateways for federated residential networks

Cooperation among federated APs in dense urban areas can yield energy saving by allowing under-used devices to hand over their wireless stations (WS) to nearby APs and temporarily switch off while meeting user expectations in terms of throughput. We demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of our energy-efficient cooperative protocol through a real deployment emulating a residential scenario. The demo we propose is highly interactive, as users can generate traffic within a BSS through a wireless station, like a smartphone or a notebook, and observe, through a web interface, the protocol behavior and the network topology changes caused by the new traffic scenario.