Personalized Diapause: reducing radio energy consumption of smartphones by network-context aware dormancy predictions

  • Authors:
  • Yeseong Kim;Jihong Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

  • Venue:
  • HotPower'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A large portion of radio energy in smartphones is wasted during a special waiting period, known as the tail time, after a transmission is completed. In order to save the wasted energy during the tail time, it is important to accurately predict whether a subsequent transmission will occur in the tail period. In this paper, we propose a novel general-purpose predictive dormancy technique, called Personalized Diapause (PD). By automatically extracting meaningful network activities as network contexts, our proposed technique takes advantage of per-user usage characteristics of each network context in deciding when to release a radio connection within the tail time. Our experimental results using real network usage logs from 25 users show that PD can save the radio energy consumption by up to 36% with about 10% reconnection increase.