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Avoiding the rush hours
2011
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services - MobiSys '11
WiFi continues to be a prime source of energy consumption in mobile devices. This paper observes that, despite a rich body of research in WiFi energy management, there is room for improvement. Our key finding is that WiFi energy optimizations have conventionally been designed with a single AP in mind. However, network contention among different APs can dramatically increase a client's energy consumption. Each client may have to keep awake for long durations before its own AP gets a chance to
doi:10.1145/1999995.2000020
dblp:conf/mobisys/ManweilerC11
fatcat:y3ahebnfm5fppj44ok57r5e62y