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| 5. Energy Efficiency for mobile devices | 5. Energy Efficiency for mobile devices | ||
| - | 5a) NAPman - Network Assisted Power MANagement | + | 5a) Network Assisted Power Management |
| 802.11 wireless interfaces are major source of power drain in the | 802.11 wireless interfaces are major source of power drain in the | ||
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| applications like VoIP because of their low-latency requirements. | applications like VoIP because of their low-latency requirements. | ||
| - | In this project, we would implement intelligent power saving | + | In this project, we would implement intelligent power saving mechanisms which would provide a solution to the above two problems. The work would involve implementation on Linux/MadWiFi open source driver. For further information please email me. Help would be provided by a senior graduate student with significant experience in the topic and in implementation of the ideas. |
| - | mechanisms which would provide a solution to the above two problems. | + | |
| - | The idea is based on virtualizing access points and having customized | + | |
| - | beacon periods for each client. We would also be using priority | + | |
| - | scheduling to negate the effect of background traffic.This would | + | |
| - | enable devices to perform "mini sleeps" with | + | |
| - | much higher frequency and hence save energy. (Current 802.11 devices | + | |
| - | would have to sleep for a minimum duration of 100ms as the beacon | + | |
| - | periods are fixed) | + | |
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| - | The work would involve implementing (1) priority scheduling for PSM | + | |
| - | packets and and (2) support for dynamic beacon periods in the MadWiFi | + | |
| - | open source driver in order to facilitate smart power management. (3) | + | |
| - | Evaluating the implementation under a variety of scenarios (e.g., | + | |
| - | different traffic patterns, link quality, presence of background | + | |
| - | traffic etc). | + | |
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| - | Help would be provided by a senior graduate student with significant experience in the topic and in implementation of the ideas. | + | |
| 5b) Network stack offloading | 5b) Network stack offloading | ||
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| - Investigate some core aspects of a WiMAX system. | - Investigate some core aspects of a WiMAX system. | ||
| - | 9. Think of your own projects. | + | 9. Implement full virtualization for a Nokia N800 phone (running Linux currently). Use Xen. |
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| + | 10. Think of your own projects. | ||
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