Paper Info
Title
SPS: An SMS-based push service for energy saving in smartphone's idle state
Abstract
Despite of all the advances in smartphone technology in recent years, smartphones still remain limited by their battery life. Unlike other power hungry components in a smartphone, the cellular data and Wi-Fi interfaces often continue to be used even when the phone is in its idle state in order to accommodate background (necessary or unnecessary) data traffic produced by some applications. In addition, bad reception has been proven to greatly increase energy consumed by the radio, which happens frequently when smartphone users are inside buildings. In this paper, we present a Short message service Push based Service (SPS) system to save unnecessary power consumption when smartphones are in idle state, especially in bad reception areas. First, SPS disables a smartphone's data interfaces whenever the phone is in idle state. Second, to preserve the real-time notification functionality required by some apps, such as new email arrivals and social media updates, when a notification is needed, a push server will deliver a wakeup text message to the phone (which does not rely on data interfaces), and then SPS enables the phone's data interfaces to connect to the corresponding server to retrieve notification data via the normal data network. Once the notification data has been retrieved, SPS will disable the data interfaces again if the phone is still in idle state. We have developed a complete SPS prototype for Android smartphones. Our experiments show that SPS consumes less energy than the current approaches. In areas with bad reception, the SPS prototype can double the battery life of a smartphone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/CCNC.2015.7157946
2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
SPS,SMS-based push service,data traffic,short message service push based service system,power consumption,data network,Android smartphone,energy saving,notification data retrieval,cellular data,Wi-Fi interfaces
Short Message Service,Synchronization,Social media,Android (operating system),Computer science,Idle,Server,Computer network,Phone,Energy consumption,Operating system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2331-9852
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erich Dondyk1111.65
Omar Nakhila263.54
Cliff C. Zou3102.59