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ACE: an active, client-directed method for reducing energy during web browsing

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In mobile devices, the wireless network interface card (WNIC) consumes a significant portion of overall system energy. One way to reduce energy consumed by a device is to transition its WNIC to a lower-power sleep mode when data is not being received or transmitted.This paper develops ACE, an active, client-directed technique to improve energy efficiency during web browsing. ACE actively retrieves buffered packets from an access point based on predictions made through client-side connection tracking. The key novel implementation technique used in ACE is connection rescheduling, which results is a better energy/time tradeoff for interactive applications such as web browsing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of ACE through actual experiments to real Internet servers.

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        NOSSDAV '05: Proceedings of the international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
        June 2005
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        DOI:10.1145/1065983
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        • (2011)Interaction-Aware Dynamic Power Optimization Scheme for Wireless Network Interface CardsProceedings of the 2011 IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications Workshops10.1109/ISPAW.2011.32(244-249)Online publication date: 26-May-2011
        • (2008)Energy-Consumption in Mobile Peer-to-Peer - Quantitative Results from File Sharing2008 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference10.1109/ccnc08.2007.167(729-733)Online publication date: Jan-2008

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