NESL Technical Report #: 2003-8-3
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Abstract: System-level power management has become a key technique to render modern wireless communication devices economically viable. Despite their relatively large impact on the system energy consumption, power management for radios has been limited to shutdown-based schemes, while processors have benefited from superior techniques based on dynamic voltage scaling (DVS). However, similar scaling approaches that trade-off energy versus performance are also available for radios. To utilize these in radio power management, existing packet scheduling policies have to be thoroughly rethought to make them energy-aware, essentially opening a whole new set of challenges the same way the introduction of DVS did to CPU task scheduling. We use one specific scaling technique, dynamic modulation scaling (DMS), as a vehicle to outline these challenges, and to introduce the intricacies caused by the nonpreemptive nature of packet scheduling and the time-varying wireless channel.
Publication Forum: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Volume: 2
Number: 3
Page (Start): 431
Page (End): 447
Page (Count): 17
Date: 2003-08-15
Publisher: ACM Press
Public Document?: Yes
NESL Document?: Yes
Document category: Journal Paper
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