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OFDM Wireless LANs: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
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OFDM Wireless LANs: A Theoretical and Practical Guide

by John Terry, Juha Heiskala
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 42m
English
Sams
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MAC Management Services

In this section, the most significant MAC management functions from an OFDM-WLAN standpoint such as MAC power management, synchronization, MAC session management, and data privacy are described.

Power Management

Much effort has been devoted in recent times to make portable devices more power efficient. These efforts have been in designing efficient power amplifiers, designing low-power CMOS VLSI circuits to do baseband processing as well as designing batteries with longer life. An important step in the same direction has been the development of power-save algorithms. The incentives to save power are potentially significant because true portability requires standalone operation on battery power. The power management schemes ...

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