Optimization of timeout-based power management policies for network interfaces

Dynamic power management policies are essential for battery-powered consumer electronics devices, which are mostly equipped with power consuming network interfaces. Timeout-based power management policies are implemented on most operating systems, but the selection of the policy parameters generally resort to heuristic approaches and there is lack of support for network interfaces dynamic power management. Therefore, this paper introduces an innovative solution for timeout-based power management policies for network interfaces. The presented policy exploits statistical data analysis and the optimization of both power savings and performance. The effectiveness of the introduced policy is demonstrated by experimental results¹.