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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of St Andrews
Towards Energy-Awareness in Managing Wireless LAN Applications
<06>The first study demonstrating empirically the potential for packet transmission configuration changes to provide energy efficiency under application-level control. Applications can trade-off performance for energy efficiency as required, without hardware support. Most work on energy efficiency has concentrated on hardware issues, either new "green" hardware, or better utilisation of current hardware, e.g. through virtualisation. However, we show two orders of magnitude energy efficiency improvement through software configuration alone.The work is supported by extensive empirical evaluation, across a range of application workloads, giving upper and lower bounds for energy-efficiency capability in a wireless LAN environment, but is applicable more generally.