A system and method for reducing call establishment delay in wireless
network is provided, in which a network node establishes a call to a
wireless terminal controlled by an AP via a server. The wireless terminal
notifies the server of its listen interval. In the power saving mode, the
wireless terminal wakes up every listen interval and listen the beacon to
check whether any buffered packet for it. When the wireless terminal
learns from the beacon that there are packets waiting, it communicates
with the access point to retrieve them. The server records a listen time
at which the wireless terminal will wake up and listen to the AP based on
the listen interval. When a network node calls the wireless terminal, the
server buffers the request for a time interval based on the listen time,
and then sends the request to the wireless terminal.