Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

HIDE: AP-Assisted Broadcast Traffic Management to Save Smartphone Energy

  • Ge Peng
  • , Gang Zhou
  • , David T. Nguyen
  • , Xin Qi
  • , Shan Lin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

WiFi is a major source of energy consumption on smartphones. Unfortunately, a non-negligible portion of the WiFi energy consumption is spent for frames that are useless to the smartphone. For example, energy is wasted to receive WiFi broadcast frames that are not needed by any smartphone application. What's worse, in order to process the broadcast frames received, a smartphone in suspend mode switches from suspend mode to high power active mode and stays there for a while. As such, additional energy is wasted to do the processing. In this paper, we design a system, namely HIDE, to reduce smartphone energy wasted on useless WiFi broadcast traffic. With our system, smartphones in suspend mode do not receive useless broadcast frames or wake up to process useless broadcast frames. Our trace-driven simulation shows that the HIDE system saves 34%-75% energy for Nexus One when 10% of the broadcast frames are useful to the smartphone. Our overhead analysis demonstrates that our system has negligible impact on network capacity and packet round-trip time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages509-518
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781509014828
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 8 2016
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2016 - Nara, Japan
Duration: Jun 27 2016Jun 30 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Volume2016-August

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period06/27/1606/30/16

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'HIDE: AP-Assisted Broadcast Traffic Management to Save Smartphone Energy'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this