7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

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Characterization of power consumption in thin clients due to protocol data transmission over IEEE 802.11

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291601,
    author={Pieter Simoens and Bert Vankeirsbilck and Farhan Ali and Lien Deboosere and Filip De Turck and Bart Dhoedt and Piet Demeester and Rodolfo Torrea-Duran and Claude Desset},
    title={Characterization of power consumption in thin clients due to protocol data transmission over IEEE 802.11},
    proceedings={7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WIOPT},
    year={2009},
    month={10},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291601}
}
  • Pieter Simoens
    Bert Vankeirsbilck
    Farhan Ali
    Lien Deboosere
    Filip De Turck
    Bart Dhoedt
    Piet Demeester
    Rodolfo Torrea-Duran
    Claude Desset
    Year: 2009
    Characterization of power consumption in thin clients due to protocol data transmission over IEEE 802.11
    WIOPT
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291601
Pieter Simoens1,*, Bert Vankeirsbilck1,*, Farhan Ali1,*, Lien Deboosere1,*, Filip De Turck1,*, Bart Dhoedt1,*, Piet Demeester1,*, Rodolfo Torrea-Duran2,*, Claude Desset2,*
  • 1: Ghent University - IBBT, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Gaston Crommenlaan 8, bus 201, 9050 Ghent, Belgium
  • 2: IMEC Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
*Contact email: pieter.simoens@intec.ugent.be, bert.vankeirsbilck@intec.ugent.be, farhan.azmatali@intec.ugent.be, lien.deboosere@intec.ugent.be, filip.deturck@intec.ugent.be, bart.dhoedt@intec.ugent.be, piet.demeester@intec.ugent.be, torrea@imec.be, desset@imec.be

Abstract

In thin client computing, applications are executed on a network server instead of on the user terminal. Since the amount of processing at the terminal is reduced, thin clients are potentially energy efficient devices. However, a network connection between client and server is required for the transmission of user input and display updates. The energy needed for this intense network communication might undo or even exceed the power savings achieved by the reduction in client-side processing. In this paper, we present experimental results on power efficiency of the wireless platform on the thin client in case of thin client traffic. The discussion is focused on VNC-RFB, a widespread thin client protocol, over an IEEE 802.11 link in three typical user scenarios. The results indicate that a cross-layer approach between application and wireless link layer could potentially lead to important power savings.

Published
2009-10-23
Publisher
IEEE
Modified
2010-05-16
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291601
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