Adaptive Packet Scheduling Scheme for Enhancing the PSM Performance of Mobile Devices

Abstract

Key Words : IEEE 802.11, S-PSM, A-PSM, Tail-energy, EWT ABSTRACT Wireless LAN (WLAN) interface is one of the major sources drastically depleting the battery power of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Most commercial mobile devices employ a power saving technique putting their WLAN interface into a sleep state when there is no network traffic, and thereby, save the battery power. However, since an access point (AP) just transmits the packet(s) received from a server to the corresponding mobile device immediately, it may cause a problem that the mobile device constantly remains in an awake state so that its battery power is rapidly drained. In this paper, we point out this problem and propose a new scheme that can save the mobile device's battery power with an adaptive packet scheduling at the AP side. From the experimental results based on a testbed, we found that the proposed scheme outperforms existing schemes over 50% in terms of power saving.※ 본 연구는 미래창조과학부 및 정보통신산업진흥원의 대학 IT연구센터 지원사업의 연구결과로 수행되었음