WiZizz: Energy efficient bandwidth management in IEEE 802.11ac wireless networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new power save operation as well as the corresponding protocol, called WiFi in Zizz (WiZizz), which judiciously exploits the characteristic of the channel bonding defined in IEEE 802.11ac and efficiently handles the channel bandwidth in an on-demand manner to minimize the traumatic energy spent by IEEE 802.11ac devices. Our extensive measurement and simulation show significant performance improvement (up to 73% energy saving) over a wide range of communication scenarios. In addition, the feasibility of easy implementation is demonstrated by a prototype with a commercial 802.11ac device. To the best of our knowledge, WiZizz is the first IEEE 802.11ac-congenial energy efficient bandwidth management while other existing approaches require costly modifications of the IEEE 802.11ac specification.