Characterizing and modeling the impact of wireless signal strength on smartphone battery drain

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2013, Pages 29-40

  Ding, Ning ^a   Wagner, Daniel ^b   Chen, Xiaomeng ^a   Hu, Y Charlie ^a   Rice, Andrew ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Battery drain; Energy; Power model; Signal strength; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; BATTERY DRAIN; ENERGY; MARKET PENETRATION; MODELING ACCURACY; POWER MODEL; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; WI-FI CONNECTIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84880221241     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2494232.2466586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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