A low power, low bandwidth protocol for remote wireless terminals
Wireless Networks - Special issue VLSI in wireless networks
Power management techniques for mobile communication
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wave and Wait Protocol (WWP): An Energy-Saving Transport Protocol for Mobile IP-Devices
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Energy-efficient internetworking with DTN
WWIC'11 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 international conference on Wired/wireless internet communications
Measuring transport protocol potential for energy efficiency
WWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
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In this paper we consider the potential of using an aggressive form of energy conservation for mobile computing environments. The estimators for the round-trip time and round-trip time variance used by TCP are used to direct the transceiver of a mobile node to idle over extended periods of time when packet activity is not anticipated. In addition, we consider data link layer extensions that provide additional control information allowing the mobile to be further selective as to when to idle and when to activate the network interface device. Simulations are conducted to examine the performance of the proposed scheme under various levels of congestion in the fixed part of the network, from completely unloaded to fully congested. The simulations reveal that the technique is promising but its effectiveness depends crucially on the control of the maximum window size used by TCP and on accurate knowledge of the congestion conditions in the network.