As mobile hand-held devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants are battery
operated, it is important to minimize their energy consumption. The limited lifetime of the battery
is always a problem for all portable devices. Although battery technology has undergone a massive
development over the years, it has not kept pace with other technologies. Therefore, research needs
to be done to use the limited life time of the battery in an efficient way.
With developments in science and technology, the power consumption of portable devices
has been brought down due to the decrease in the size of the display and optimization of components.
The trend toward smaller sizes of portable devices involved is responsible for the wireless
network interface consuming a larger share of overall power consumption of a system. In order
to optimize the power consumption of wireless communication, we should be aware of the power
consumption pattern.
Accurate energy models are required for designing and testing energy aware protocols.
The accuracy of these energy models and their contribution toward energy aware protocol design
depend on the accuracy and availability of sufficient data about power consumption of these devices.
This work contributes to the building of such a power consumption database through a
series of measurements of currently available Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNIC) and Radio
Frequency Identification Devices (RFID). These measurements also help in understanding the
behavior of these technologies at the lower levels of the network stack. / Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:WICHITA/oai:soar.wichita.edu:10057/5030 |
| Date | 07 1900 |
| Creators | Ramamoorthy, Suresh |
| Contributors | Namboodiri, Vinod |
| Publisher | Wichita State University |
| Source Sets | Wichita State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xi, 54 p. |
| Rights | © Copyright 2011 by Suresh Ramamoorthy. All rights reserved |
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