Wireless Wakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over Wi-Fi Smartphones


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Abstract:

IP based telephony is rapidly gaining acceptance over traditional means of voice communication. Wireless LANs are also becoming ubiquitous due to their inherent ease of deployment and decreasing costs. In enterprise Wi-Fi environments, VoIP is a compelling application for devices such as smartphones with multiple wireless interfaces. However, the high energy consumption of Wi-Fi interfaces, especially when a device is idle, presents a significant barrier to the widespread adoption of VoIP over Wi-Fi. To address this issue, we present Cell2Notify, a practical and deployable energy management architecture that leverages the cellular radio on a smartphone to implement wakeup for the high-energy consumption Wi-Fi radio. We present detailed measurements of energy consumption on smartphone devices, and we show that Cell2Notify can extend the battery lifetime of VoIP over Wi-Fi enabled smartphones by a factor of 1.7 to 6.4.

Documents:
“WirelessWakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over WiFi Smartphones”. [PDF]
Yuvraj Agarwal, Ranveer Chandra, AlecWolman, Paramvir Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta.      
In
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys ’07), June 2007.

Presentations:

Yuvraj Agarwal @ Mobisys 2007, June 13 2007.  [PowerPoint 2007 - PPTX

Poster/Demo: 
1. “Cell2Notify:  Energy Management for VoIP over WiFi Smartphones”, Mobisys 2007.
2. “Cell2Notify:  Energy Efficient VoIP Application Using Multiple Radios”, UCSD Jacob's School of Enginnering (JSOE) Research Expo 2008.
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Maintained By : Yuvraj Agarwal                                                                                                                                Last Edited:    February 27, 2009