Impact of SIB Scheduling on the Standby Battery Life of Mobile Devices in UMTS

Author

Catovic, Amer ; Narang, Mohit ; Taha, Ali

Author_Institution

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The UMTS standard for third generation wireless communications specifies several parameters that play a role in the tradeoff between the performance and the battery life of mobile devices. There are also other, non-standardized, implementation-specific mechanisms that affect both the performance as well as the battery life. In this paper, we focus on the scheduling of system information blocks (SIB) broadcasts on the network side and the inter-SIB sleep management on the mobile device side. We analyze the impact of these mechanisms on the standby battery life of mobile devices in three commercial networks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobile handsets; telecommunication network management; SIB scheduling; UMTS; inter-SIB sleep management; mobile devices; standby battery life; system information blocks; third generation wireless communications; 3G mobile communication; Batteries; Broadcasting; Communication standards; Physical layer; Radio control; Sleep; Standby generators; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; UMTS; battery life; wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Electronic_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299075

Filename

4299075