A practical sleep coordination and management scheme with duty cycle control for energy sustainable IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networks

We consider the energy sustainable operation of solar powered IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networks. Our main contribution is the development of a simple and novel sleep scheduling scheme that is local and distributed and provides contiguous sleep intervals that can be used for putting both radio interface cards and the main-board into deep sleep mode. We show this provides substantial energy savings as main-board power consumption comprises a...