Energy Consumption Model for Mobile Wireless Communication

Mobile wireless devices continue their fast seizure of our daily lives as they become smarter, powerful and faster. However, the new features built in these devices come with an increase of resources usage and energy consumption. Therefore, prolonging the battery lifetime of mobile devices was one of the main research topics in mobile computing for the last decade. The main goal of our work is to find specific models for application level estimation of energy consumption in order to build energy aware mobile applications. In this paper, we propose a general model based on decomposition of the whole system in hardware and software components that can be monitored and evaluated separately. Next we try to personalize this model for energy consumption of mobile wireless communication. The proposed model is based on monitoring components' measurable parameters and computing component specific efficiency metrics. Based on this model and the associated metrics we intend to propose and build a software framework for power-aware applications support.