Dynamically selecting radios on station to reduce battery consumption

A system comprising:

• a storage configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the processor to:
• transmit, from an access point (AP), a multi-link device (MLD) grouping to a station device (STA);
• transmit, from the AP, a policy to accept energy efficiency instructions that includes multi-link operation (MLO) in an energy conservation mode;
• transmit, from the AP, instructions to reduce battery consumption by the STA by limiting MLO operations and activate a single radio of a plurality of radios on the STA, wherein a remainder of the plurality of radios are inactive and powered off;
• determine, at the AP, that activity from the STA is increasing;
• and
• transmit a wake-up message to one or more of the inactive radios on the STA.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

• transmit, from an access point (AP), a multi-link device (MLD) grouping to a station device (STA);
• transmit, from the AP, a policy to accept energy efficiency instructions that includes multi-link operation (MLO) in an energy conservation mode;
• transmit, from the AP, instructions to reduce battery consumption by the STA by limiting MLO operations and activate a single radio of a plurality of radios on the STA, wherein a remainder of the plurality of radios are inactive and powered off;
• determine, at the AP, that activity from the STA is increasing;
• and
• transmit a wake-up message to one or more of the inactive radios on the STA.