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Demo: avoiding the rush hours, wifi energy management via traffic isolation

Published: 28 June 2011 Publication History

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WiFi continues to be a prime source of energy consumption in mobile devices. We observe that, despite a rich body of research in WiFi energy management, there is room for improvement. Our key finding is that WiFi energy optimizations have conventionally been designed with a single AP in mind. However, network contention among different APs can dramatically increase a client's energy consumption. Each client may have to keep awake for long durations before its own AP gets a chance to send packets to it. As the AP density increases in the vicinity, the waiting time inflates, resulting in a proportional decrease in battery life.
We present a demonstration of SleepWell, a system to appear in the MobiSys 2011 main conference. SleepWell achieves energy efficiency by evading network contention. APs regulate the sleeping window of their clients in a way that different APs are active/inactive during non-overlapping time windows. The solution is analogous to the common wisdom of going late to office and coming back late, thereby avoiding the rush hours. We believe SleepWell is a desirable upgrade to WiFi systems, especially in light of increasing WiFi density.

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      MobiSys '11: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
      June 2011
      430 pages
      ISBN:9781450306430
      DOI:10.1145/1999995

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      1. 802.11
      2. ap
      3. beacon
      4. contention
      5. psm
      6. scheduling
      7. wlan

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