Connectivity and energy usage in low-power wireless: An experimental study

Author

Puccinelli, Daniele ; Giordano, Stefano

Author_Institution

Networking Lab., Univ. of Appl. Sci. of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

18-22 March 2013

Firstpage

590

Lastpage

595

Abstract

We present an experimental study of the impact of network connectivity on energy usage in low-power wireless. We focus on the ends of the connectivity spectrum and investigate the energy footprint of excessive connectivity as well as poor connectivity. We observe that high connectivity boosts the energy footprint of broadcast traffic, because it is conducive to contention and overhearing. With respect to poor connectivity, we observe that the presence of connectivity outliers may also result in a significant increase of the energy consumption. To enable fair comparisons between experimental runs, we augment our results with quantitative data regarding the network topology during each run.

Keywords

energy conservation; low-power electronics; radio access networks; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; broadcast traffic; connectivity spectrum; energy footprint; energy usage; low-power wireless; network connectivity; network topology; quantitative data; Delays; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5075-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5076-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529564

Filename

6529564