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by lxgr 488 days ago
802.11 supports the same thing. A STA (client) can tell an AP that it'll be going away for some time, and the AP will queue all traffic for the STA until it actively reports back. Broadcast traffic can also be synchronized to particular intervals (but low power devices are usually not interested in that anyway for efficiency reasons).
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I have very little experience with Wi-Fi, as the industry I worked in relied almost exclusively on cellular networks. However, I wonder how many Wi-Fi routers actually support this functionality in practice - as queing traffic means you need to cache it somewhere.