Towards End-User Driven Power Saving Control in Android devices

Authors

Abstract

During the last decade mobile communications increasingly became part of people's daily routine. Such usage raises new challenges regarding devices' battery lifetime management when using most popular wireless access technologies, such as IEEE 802.11. This paper investigates the energy/delay trade-off of using an end-user driven power saving approach, when compared with the standard IEEE 802.11 power saving algorithms. The assessment was conducted in a real testbed using an Android mobile phone and high-precision energy measurement hardware. The results show clear energy benefits of employing user-driven power saving techniques, when compared with other standard approaches.

Keywords

Energy Efficiency, Power Saving, IEEE 802.11, Android, Testbed

Subject

Energy efficiency

Conference

The 14th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2014), 27-29 August 2014, St.Petersburg, Russia , August 2014