An Experimental Network Proxy for Power Managed End Nodes

End devices connected to the Internet consume a considerable amount of electricity. Studies show many of these computers have their power management features disabled in order to maintain their network presence and network connections. Past research proposes to use a low power proxy to ´stand in´ for a computer, allowing it to go to sleep and thus save power while still maintaining its network presence. This paper describes an experimental platform that can be used to develop the requirements for such a proxy. With the platform, we propose to develop a language to be used by applications to provide the necessary code to the proxy to maintain network connections and presence for a sleeping computer.