On power and throughput tradeoffs of WiFi and bluetooth in smartphones

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1363-1376

  Friedman, Roy ^a   Kogan, Alex ^a   Krivolapov, Yevgeny ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; power consumption; smartphones; throughput; WiFi

Indexed keywords

CROSS LAYER OPTIMIZATION; POWER RATIO; POWER REQUIREMENT; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE; USAGE PATTERNS;

COMMERCE; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; SMARTPHONES; THROUGHPUT; WI-FI;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 84878164510     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.117     Document Type: Article

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