Research Article
PAN-on-Demand: Leveraging multiple radios to build self-organizing, energy-efficient PANs
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3614, author={Manish Anand and Jason Flinn}, title={PAN-on-Demand: Leveraging multiple radios to build self-organizing, energy-efficient PANs}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3614} }- Manish Anand
Jason Flinn
Year: 2010
PAN-on-Demand: Leveraging multiple radios to build self-organizing, energy-efficient PANs
MOBIQUITOUS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3614
Abstract
We present PAN-on-Demand, a self-organizing wireless personalarea network (PAN) that balances performance and energy concerns by scaling the structure of the network to match the demands of applications. PAN-on-Demand autonomously organizes co-located mobile devices with one or more commodity radios such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to form a network that enables data sharing among those devices. It improves performance and extends battery life by switching between interfaces and opportunistically exploiting available power-saving modes. When applications are actively using the network, PAN-on-Demand offers high-bandwidth, low-latency communication; when demand is light, it adapts the network structure to minimize energy usage. Our results show that PAN-on- Demand reduces the average response time of PAN activities such as MP3 playing, e-mail viewing, and photo sharing by up to 92% and extends battery life by up to 47% compared to current PAN communication strategies.
