TY - JOUR
T1 - A real-time power monitoring and energy-efficient network/interface selection tool for android smartphones
AU - Tuysuz, Mehmet Fatih
AU - Ucan, Murat
AU - Trestian, Ramona
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Energy efficiency in wireless and cellular networks has become one of the most important concerns for both academia and industry due to battery dependence of mobile devices. In this regard, Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNICs) of mobile devices have to be taken into account carefully as they consume an important chunk of the system's total energy. In this paper, we propose a real-time network power consumption profiler and an energy-aware network/interface selection tool for Android-based smartphones. The tool has been freely released on the Android Play Store. The proposed solution reports the power consumption levels of different network interfaces (Wi-Fi and Cellular) by making use of actual packet measurements and precise computations, and enables the devices to handover horizontally/vertically in order to improve the energy efficiency. In this context, widespread analyses have been executed to show the accuracy of the proposed tool. The results demonstrate that the proposed tool is very accurate for any type of IEEE 802.11 wireless or cellular stations, regardless of having different amount of channel utilization, transmission rates, signal strengths or traffic types.
AB - Energy efficiency in wireless and cellular networks has become one of the most important concerns for both academia and industry due to battery dependence of mobile devices. In this regard, Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNICs) of mobile devices have to be taken into account carefully as they consume an important chunk of the system's total energy. In this paper, we propose a real-time network power consumption profiler and an energy-aware network/interface selection tool for Android-based smartphones. The tool has been freely released on the Android Play Store. The proposed solution reports the power consumption levels of different network interfaces (Wi-Fi and Cellular) by making use of actual packet measurements and precise computations, and enables the devices to handover horizontally/vertically in order to improve the energy efficiency. In this context, widespread analyses have been executed to show the accuracy of the proposed tool. The results demonstrate that the proposed tool is very accurate for any type of IEEE 802.11 wireless or cellular stations, regardless of having different amount of channel utilization, transmission rates, signal strengths or traffic types.
KW - Android
KW - Energy-efficient network/interface selection
KW - Wireless & cellular networks
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e643ecb3-ce4a-3863-ac00-f7a9f858dc58/
U2 - 10.1016/j.jnca.2018.11.013
DO - 10.1016/j.jnca.2018.11.013
M3 - Article
VL - 127
SP - 107
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
JF - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
SN - 1084-8045
ER -