Power consumption evaluation in vehicular opportunistic networks

The duration of batteries is a key factor that must be considered in the design and deployment of applications and services on mobile devices. The users of this technology are not aware of the energetic impact of the applications executing in their devices, especially if these applications present an adaptive behavior. The goal of this paper is to study the power consumption associated to an opportunistic communication application. This will be achieved by analyzing the different operation stages of an application running on mobile and vehicular devices, using basic statistical analysis calculations on data collected by a logging application. Furthermore, this will allow analysing the impact of this kind of applications regarding battery performance, providing useful information to users and developers. The experiments were executed in an opportunistic network environment, using a floating content approach as a mechanism for information distribution in a geographically delimited zone.