Analyzing and Modelling the Interference Impact on Energy Efficiency of WLANs

The demands for high-bandwidth drives a dense wireless local access network (WLAN), which may result in severe co-channel interference and energy consumption increasing. To clearly quantify the effect of interference on energy consumption of 802.11 access devices, it is crucial to measure and model the effect of interference. This paper takes extensive measurements for five different WiFi interference types for downstream UDP transmission in actual environment. Based on experimental measurements, we establish a physical interference-energy efficiency (IFEE) model by reconstructing the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) notion and the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) rate adaptive mechanism to accurately predict the interference impaction. Our experimental measurements demonstrate that interference leads to a decrease in energy efficiency and throughput. Compared with the transmit power, channel separation interference dominates. It is worth noting that the impact of interference with multiple interferers is less than single interferer scene. The simulation experiments verify that our IFEE model can achieve high accuracy of interference and energy efficiency modeling.

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