Reducing Energy Cost of Keepalive Messages in 3G Mobiles

Author

Oulmahdi, Mohamed ; Chassot, Christophe ; Exposito, E.

Author_Institution

LAAS, Toulouse, France

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 March 2013

Firstpage

1600

Lastpage

1605

Abstract

Mobile phones are characterized by limited energy sources. Saving this energy is therefore a primordial subject. As well as for the low level communication protocols (typically from Physical and MAC layers), unnecessary energy consumption can be caused by the behavior of high level protocols, typically from Application and Transport layers. In this paper, we study the case of a classical but not well-known mechanism, the "keep alive mechanism", that induces increase of the energetic cost on mobile phones. We then propose a solution to reduce this cost and provide NS-3 experimentations that show the resulting benefits.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; access protocols; 3G mobile; NS-3 experimentation; application layer; energy consumption; energy cost reduction; energy saving; energy sources; keepalive mechanism; low level communication protocol; transport layer; Context; Energy consumption; Energy loss; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Protocols; Servers; Application / Transport layer; Energy saving; Keepalive mechanism; NS-3 simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2013 27th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6239-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4952-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2013.247

Filename

6550624