Title
Power-throughput tradeoffs of 802.11n/ac in smartphones
Abstract
This paper presents the first, to the best of our knowledge, detailed experimental study of 802.11n/ac throughput and power consumption in modern smartphones. We experiment with a variety of smartphones, supporting different subsets of 802.11n/ac features. We investigate the power consumption in various states of the wireless interface (sleep, idle, active), the impact of various features of 802.11n/ac (PHY bitrate, frame aggregation, channel bonding, MIMO) on both throughput and power consumption, and the tradeoffs between these two metrics. Some of our findings are significantly different from the findings of previous studies using 802.11n/ac wireless cards for laptop/desktop computers. We believe that these findings will help in understanding various performance and power consumption issues in today's smartphones and will guide the design of power optimization algorithms for the next generation of mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218372
2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
power throughput tradeoffs,802.11n/ac,smartphones,power consumption,wireless interface,channel bonding,MIMO,laptop-desktop computers,power optimization algorithms,mobile devices
Wireless,Power optimization,Laptop,Channel bonding,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile device,Frame aggregation,Throughput,Wireless network interface controller,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-166X
17
0.67
References 
Authors
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Swetank K. Saha1588.78
Pratik Deshpande2170.67
Pranav P. Inamdar3170.67
Ramanujan K. Sheshadri4444.31
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas574653.88