ABSTRACT
Mobile devices tend to incorporate more and more processing units and functionalities which has a negative effect on battery lifetime. For this reason IEEE 802.16e workgroup has standardized those mechanisms that would augment battery lifetime in a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) network without affecting the quality-of-service (QoS) performance. This chapter gives an overview of those mechanisms, includes the methods to analyze them, and identifies those elements that could decrease the waiting time when in sleep mode.
