Application Level Energy and Performance Measurements in a Wireless LAN

Author

Tauber, Markus ; Bhatti, Saleem N. ; Yu, Yi

Author_Institution

Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

4-5 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

109

Abstract

We present an experimental evaluation of energy usage and performance in a wireless LAN cell based on a test bed using the 5 GHz ISM band for 802.11a and 802.11n. We have taken an application-level approach, by varying the packet size and transmission rate at the protocol level and evaluating energy usage across a range of application transmission rates using both large and small packet sizes. We have observed that both the application´s transmission rate and the packet size have an impact on energy efficiency for transmission in our test bed. We also included in our experiments evaluation of the energy efficiency of emulations of YouTube and Skype flows, and a comparison with Ethernet transmissions.

Keywords

protocols; wireless LAN; Ethernet transmissions; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.11n; ISM band; Skype; YouTube emulations; application level energy measurement; application transmission rates; packet size; performance measurements; protocol level; wireless LAN; Bit rate; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Monitoring; Power measurement; Throughput; Wireless LAN; YouTube; Energy-Efficiency; Performance; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sichuan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1006-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4466-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GreenCom.2011.26

Filename

6061282