Siemens IEEE802.11 Tutorial page 48

Power Management Approach
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Allow idle stations to go to sleep
– station's power save mode stored in AP
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APs buffer packets for sleeping stations.
– AP announces which stations have frames buffered
– Traffic Indication Map (TIM) sent with every Beacon
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Power Saving stations wake up periodically
– listen for Beacons
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TSF assures AP and Power Save stations are synchronized
– stations will wake up to hear a Beacon
– TSF timer keeps running when stations are sleeping
– synchronization allows extreme low power operation
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Independent BSS also have Power Management
– similar in concept, distributed approach
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