Energy Consumption and Conservation in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
Selim Gurun
Priya Nagpurkar
Ben Y. Zhao
First International Workshop on Decentralized
Resource Sharing
in Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiShare 2006)
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Paper Abstract
Today's mobile devices are growing in number and computational
resources. Devices capable of storing gigabytes of digital content are
becoming ubiquitous, making them an ideal platform for peer-to-peer
content delivery and sharing. However, the always-on communication
patterns of P2P networks is not a natural fit for energy-constrained
mobile devices. In this paper, we perform a detailed study of energy
consumption of a structured P2P overlay on a PDA device. Using actual
energy measurements, we present energy consumption results for different
type of operations in P2P overlays. Based on these observations, we
implement an approach to improve energy conservation on P2P protocols
and show some promising preliminary results.