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Analysis of TCP's computational energy cost for mobile computing

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Bokyung Wang,

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31, Issue 1

Pages 296 - 297

https://doi.org/10.1145/885651.781065

Published: 10 June 2003 Publication History

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In this paper we present results from a measurement study of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) running over a wireless link. Our primary goal was on obtaining a breakdown of the computational energy cost of TCP at the sender and receiver (excluding radio energy costs) as a first step in developing techniques to reduce this cost in actual systems. We analyzed the energy consumption of TCP in FreeBSD 5 running on a wireless laptop. Our initial results showed that 60 - 70% of the energy cost (for transmission or reception) is accounted for by the Kernel -- NIC (Network Interface Card) copy operation. Of the remainder, 15% is accounted for in the copy operation from user space to kernel space with the remaining 15% being accounted for by TCP processing costs. We then further analyzed the TCP processing cost and determined the cost of computing checksums accounts for 20 -- 30% of TCP processing cost.

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Analysis of TCP's computational energy cost for mobile computing
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  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols

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cover image ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 31, Issue 1

June 2003

325 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/885651

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SIGMETRICS '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
June 2003
338 pages
ISBN:1581136641
DOI:10.1145/781027
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Xiao YCui YSavolainen PSiekkinen MWang AYang LYla-Jaaski ATarkoma S(2014)Modeling Energy Consumption of Data Transmission Over Wi-FiIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2013.5113:8(1760-1773)Online publication date: Aug-2014
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Kim TLee JCha HHa R(2008)An energy‐aware transmission mechanism for WiFi‐based mobile devices handling upload TCP trafficInternational Journal of Communication Systems10.1002/dac.99222:5(625-640)Online publication date: 23-Dec-2008
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