Analysis of the energy conservation aspects of a mobile context broker

Kiani, Saad Liaquat; Moltchanov, Boris; Knappmeyer, Michael; Baker, Nigel

Abstract

Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the main mean of interaction for inhabitants of ubiquitous computing environments. Pervasiveness of these devices as users’ personal gadgets and their high-tech capabilities allow capturing of broad contextual information about the physical environment, users social profile and preferences. These modern roles of mobile devices facilitate a number of user and environment related context consuming and producing applications to be hosted on these devices. But without a coordinating component on the mobile device these context consumers and providers are a potential burden on device resources, specifically the effect of uncoordinated computation and communication shortens the battery life. In this paper we briefly de- scribe the concept of a Mobile Context Broker and focus on the energy conservation benefits gained through the context coordination facilities provided by the Mobile Context Broker executing on a smart mobile device. The reported results signify reduction in energy consumption.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: The 4th conference on Smart Spaces -- ruSMART, August 22--23
• Start Date: Aug 22, 2011
• End Date: Aug 23, 2011
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: energy, conservation, mobile, context, broker
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/969527
• Publisher URL: http://rusmart.e-werest.org/
• Related Public URLs: http://www.slkiani.com
• Additional Information: Additional Information : To be published in LNCS proceedings