Context-aware energy consumption of mobile wireless communication

Smart mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have fast penetration rates into almost all domains of our life. Frequent usage of mobile applications on such devices increases their resources usage and energy consumption, reducing thus their mobility and autonomy. Modern power management mechanisms are thus overwhelmed by today power hungry mobile applications. Therefore new power management and energy efficiency mechanisms are evaluated. One such mechanism is the integration of higher system abstraction layers into the power management process with the aim to build a cross layer energy management solution. In our work we aim to integrate high level user context information into the energy management solution in order to increase the energy consumption efficiency. This paper investigates the influence of user and communication infrastructure contexts on the energy consumption of wireless communication.