This article describes architectural and algorithmic approaches that designers can use to enhance the energy awareness of wireless sensor networks. The article starts off with an analysis of the power consumption characteristics of typical sensor node architectures and identifies the various

lowest energy paths may not be optimal from the point of view of network lifetime and long-term connectivity. To optimize these measures, we propose a new scheme called energy aware routing that uses sub-optimal paths occasionally to provide substantial gains. Simulation results are also presented

In this paper, we demonstrate that a collaborative relationship between the operating system and applications can be used to meet user-specified goals for battery duration. We first show how applications can dynamically modify their behavior to conserve energy. We then show how the Linux operating

scheduling under reliability and makespan constraints

Today, the worldwide mobile communication infrastructure offers ubiquitous mobile connec-tivity and unprecedented service levels. More than 4 billion subscribers around the world

In systems that require low energy consumption, voltage scaling is an invaluable circuit technique. It also offers energy awareness, trading off energy and performance. In wireless handheld devices, the communication portion of the system is a major power hog. We introduce a new technique, called

that sensor network queries may often be geographical, we design and evaluate an energy efficient routing algorithm that propagates a query to the appropriate geographical region, without flooding. The proposed Geographic and Energy Aware Routing (GEAR) algorithm uses energy aware neighbor selection to route

Abstract -The concept of energy aware software is introduced. A simple energy model for software is presented that separates the switching and leakage components and predicts its total energy consumption with less than 5% error for a set of benchmark programs. The experiments have been performed

for introducing energy awareness in the design and operation of enterprise and data center networks. We focus on these networks as they are under the control of a single administrative domain in which network-wide control can be consistently applied. In this paper, we describe and analyze three approaches

OF THE DISSERTATION Energy-Aware Wireless Communications by Curt Schurgers Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, 2002 Professor Mani B. Srivastava, Chair Embedded systems are evolving from single stand-alone entities into true networks