Minimizing energy for wireless web access with bounded slowdown
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
TCP-Real: receiver-oriented congestion control
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Application-specific Network Management for Energy-Aware Streaming of Popular Multimedia Formats
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Self-tuning wireless network power management
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A receiver-centric transport protocol for mobile hosts with heterogeneous wireless interfaces
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Selected papers from ACM MobiCom 2003
Client-Centered, Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication on IEEE 802.11b Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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Energy consumption is a concern with mobile de-vices nowadays. Network interfaces are among the most power hungry components in these devices. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a client-centric protocol for energy efficiency. Inspired by earlier work, our protocol works by exploiting the TCP flow-control mechanism to shape incoming traffic into bursts in order to utilize the unused bandwidth between the server and the client. Our solution works with multiple simultaneous connections and it is extensible to different scheduling policies. Furthermore, the purely client-centric nature of the protocol enables easier deployment of the solution. The protocol is application independent and it is targeted for bulky TCP transfers. The solution can be used on Linux based systems and is kept portable as it can be deployed with different wireless devices without major modifications. We have tested our solution with real web-servers and our results show that the protocol can achieve sleep time up to 80 percent and 45percent of total duration of one and four active simultaneous connections, respectively.