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IEICE Transactions on Communications 2007 E90-B(10):2780-2783; doi:10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.10.2780
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Copyright © 2007 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Special Section on New Challenge for Internet Technology and its Architecture -- Letters

MIPv6-Based Power Saving Scheme in Integrated WLAN and Cellular Networks*

SuKyoung LEE1, LaeYoung KIM1 and HoJin KIM1

1 The authors are with the Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. E-mail: sklee{at}cs.yonsei.ac.kr


  Abstract

In the integrated Wireless LAN (WLAN) and cellular networks, power efficiency is one of the most important aspects as in existing wireless networks. Especially, we note that in the idle state, a mobile device with dual interfaces needs to receive periodic beacons from the access point and downlink control information from the base station, resulting in significant power consumption. To save the power, we propose a power saving scheme with Hibernation mode to completely turn off the WLAN interface during the idle state, instead of entering Power Save (PS) mode and turn it on only when there is a need to receive data. However, if the WLAN interface is turned on even for a momentary traffic, it must repeat turning on and off continuously, dissipating power. Thus, we also develop a Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)-based signaling to turn on the WLAN interface for long-lived traffic. It is shown via simulations that the proposed power saving scheme results in better power efficiency.

Key Words: WLAN, cellular networks, power saving, MIPv6

Manuscript received January 22, 2007.

* This work was supported by grant No.R01-2006-000-10614-0 from the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation.


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