A first look at 802.11n power consumption in smartphones

  • Authors:
  • Ninad Warty;Ramanujan K. Sheshadri;Wei Zheng;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

  • Affiliations:
  • University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA;University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA;University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA;University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Practical issues and applications in next generation wireless networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We report the first measurement study of 802.11n power consumption in smartphones. Using a popular 802.11n-enabled smartphone and an 802.11n wireless testbed, we evaluate the power and energy consumption on the phone for a variety of configurations including different MAC bitrates, frame sizes, and channel conditions. We contrast our results against recent studies using 802.11n wireless cards for desktop/laptop computers. Our findings have significant implications in the design of energy efficient rate adaptation algorithms for the next generation of 802.11n-enabled smartphones.