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Estimating Energy Efficiency of Data-Link Layer in System Level Performance Evaluation

Authors:
Subayal Khan
Jukka Saastamoinen
Jyrki Huusko
Juha Korpi
Jari Nurmi

Keywords: Data-link; ABSOLUT; System Level Performance Evaluation; Distributed systems; Energy Consumption

Abstract:
Modern distributed embedded systems are composed of a number of mobile devices, which have limited battery life. The design of distributed embedded systems is therefore challenging and data-link layer plays an important role in end-user experience by ensuring reliable error free communications. Both the non-functional properties such as end-end delays and frame error rate, and energy consumption of the data-link and upper layer protocols must be thoroughly investigated in order to ensure optimal distributed system design. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel framework to estimate the energy consumption and non-functional properties of the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. In this article we elaborate the extensions made for Abstract workload based performance simulation (ABSOLUT) System Level Performance Evaluation (SLPE) approach and the corresponding methodology to estimate energy consumption of IEEE 802.11 family MAC protocol through a case-study in UDP/IP transmission.

Pages: 98 to 106

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4537

ISBN: 978-1-61208-308-7

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013