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EnergyBox : A Trace-driven Tool for Data Transmission Energy Consumption Studies

Although evolving mobile technologies bring millions of users closer to the vision of information anywhere-anytime, device battery depletions hamper the quality of experience to a great extent. We argue that the design of energy-efficient solutions starts by energy-awareness and propose EnergyBox, a tool that provides accurate and repeatable energy consumption studies for 3G and WiFi transmissions at the user end. We recognize that the energy consumption of data transmission is highly dependable on the traffic pattern, and provide the means for trace-based iterative packet-driven simulation to derive the operation states of wireless interfaces. The strength of EnergyBox is that it allows to modularly set the 3G network parameters specified at operator level, the adaptive power save mode mechanism for a WiFi device, and the different power levels of the operation states for different handheld devices. EnergyBox enables efficient energy consumption studies using real data, which complements the device-dependent laborious physical power measurements. Using real application transmission traces, we have validated EnergyBox showing an accuracy range of 94-99% for 3G and 93-99% for WiFi compared to the real measured energy consumption by a 3G modem and a smartphone with WiFi.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-93212
Date January 2013
CreatorsVergara Alonso, Ekhiotz Jon, Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin
PublisherLinköpings universitet, Programvara och system, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeConference paper, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationLecture Notes in Computer Science, 0302-9743 (print), 1611-3349 (online), EE-LSDS 2013, Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems

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