Performance study and analysis of D-SWAP for mobile communication networks

Abstract

For newly emerging multimedia applications in mobile communication networks, because their network traffic patterns are different from the traditional applications, some existed power-saving mechanisms in literatures cannot provide better performance on mobile devices anymore. In this paper, a mathematical analysis model is developed to demonstrate the performance of the newly proposed D-SWAP power-saving mechanism. The analyzed performance focuses on the average power consumption and average packet delay. The analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed D-SWAP can concurrently satisfy the trade-off requirements of low average power consumption and low average packet delay.