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In this study the authors consider the energy consumption of mobile agents operating in wireless local area network (WLAN) environment. They present an energy model of an ad hoc WLAN based on the IEEE 802.11 standard and analyse both per-device and WLAN-wide energy consumption. With this model the authors investigate ‘features’ of the 802.11 protocol (such as frame fragmentation, preamble/header lengths and power-save schemes) on energy consumption in the context of a mobile agent management domain. They also consider ‘clustering’ as a means of optimising energy consumption.

Inspec keywords: ad hoc networks; wireless LAN; telecommunication computing; mobile agents

Other keywords: WLAN wide energy consumption; mobile agent management; wireless ad hoc network environment; IEEE 802.11 standard; 802.11 protocol; WLAN

Subjects: Radio links and equipment; Local area networks; Expert systems and other AI software and techniques; Computer communications; Communications computing

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