Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications

Markus Gerhard Tauber; Saleem N. Bhatti; Yi Yu

doi:10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211930

Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications

Markus Gerhard Tauber, Saleem N. Bhatti, Yi Yu

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

We have investigated the scope for enabling WLAN applications to manage the trade-off between performance and energy usage. We have conducted measurements of energy usage and performance in our 802.11n WLAN testbed, which operates in the 5 GHz ISM band. We have defined an effective energy usage envelope with respect to application-level packet transmission, and we demonstrate how performance as well as the effective energy usage envelope is effected by various configurations of IEEE 802.11n, including transmission power levels and channel width. Our findings show that the packet size and packet rate of the application flow have the greatest impact on application-level energy usage, compared to transmission power and channel width. As well as testing across a range of packet sizes and packet rates, we emulate a Skype flow, a YouTube flow and file transfers (HTTP over Internet and local server) to place our results in context. Based on our measurements we discuss approaches and potential improvements of management in effective energy usage for the tested applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)
Subtitle of host publication	16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA
Editors	F DeTurck, LP Gaspary, D Medhi
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	453-461
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-0268-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-0267-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211930
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2012
Event	13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - Maui, United States Duration: 16 Apr 2012 → 20 Apr 2012

Publication series

Name	IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
ISSN (Print)	1542-1201

Conference

Conference	13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Country/Territory	United States
City	Maui
Period	16/04/12 → 20/04/12

Keywords

IEEE-802.11

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10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211930

IU-ATC Phase 2: IU ATC Phase 2
Bhatti, S. (PI)
EPSRC
1/06/12 → 31/05/15
Project: Standard
India-Uk Adv Tech center: India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC) of Excellence in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services
Bhatti, S. (PI)
EPSRC
1/06/09 → 31/05/12
Project: Standard

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Tauber, M. G., Bhatti, S. N., & Yu, Y. (2012). Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications. In F. DeTurck, LP. Gaspary, & D. Medhi (Eds.), 2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (pp. 453-461). (IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211930

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Tauber, MG, Bhatti, SN & Yu, Y 2012, Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications. in F DeTurck, LP Gaspary & D Medhi (eds), 2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA . IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, IEEE, New York, pp. 453-461, 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Maui, United States, 16/04/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211930

Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications. / Tauber, Markus Gerhard; Bhatti, Saleem N.; Yu, Yi.
2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA . ed. / F DeTurck; LP Gaspary; D Medhi. New York: IEEE, 2012. p. 453-461 (IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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