On the Effects of Transmit Power Control on the Energy Consumption of WiFi Network Cards

Francesco Piazza; Stefano Mangione; Ilenia Tinnirello

Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks. 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings

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On the Effects of Transmit Power Control on the Energy Consumption of WiFi Network Cards

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Francesco Piazza
Stefano Mangione
Ilenia Tinnirello
Year: 2012
On the Effects of Transmit Power Control on the Energy Consumption of WiFi Network Cards
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_29

Francesco Piazza¹, Stefano Mangione¹, Ilenia Tinnirello¹

1: Università di Palermo

Abstract

Transmit power control has been largely proposed as a solution to improve the performance of packet radio systems in terms of increased throughput, spatial reuse and battery lifetime for mobile terminals. However, the benefits of transmit power control schemes on these different performance figures may strongly depend on the employed PHY technology and channel access mechanism. In this paper, we focus on the effects of power control on the energy consumption of WiFi network cards. By means of several experimental tests carried out under different operation conditions and modulation schemes, we try to justify why the reduction of the transmission power has a marginal effect on the overall energy consumption.

Published: 2012-10-11

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_29