Green mobile devices and networks: energy optimization and scavenging techniques

While battery capacity fails to keep up with the power-demanding features of the latest mobile devices, powering the functional advancement of wireless devices requires a revolution in the concept of battery life and recharge capability. Future hand-held devices and wireless networks should be able to recharge themselves automatically from the environment and optimize their energy consumption. Green Mobile Devices and Networks: Energy Optimization and Scavenging Techniques provides insights into the principles and technical challenges behind both automatic optimization of energy consumption an.

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; The Editors; The Contributors; Chapter 1: Energy Management for Location-Based Services on Mobile Devices; Chapter 2: Energy Efficient Supply of Mobile Devices; Chapter 3: Energy Cost of Software Applications on Portable Wireless Devices; Chapter 4: Striking a Balance between Energy Conservation and QoS Provision for VoIP in WiMAX Systems; Chapter 5: QoE-Based Energy Conservation for VoIP Applications in WLAN; Chapter 6: Minimum Energy Multicriteria Relay Selection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks; Chapter 7: Energy Optimization Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Chapter 8: Design Issues in EM Energy Harvesting SystemsChapter 9: Energy Scavenging for Magnetically Coupled Communication Devices; Chapter 10: Mixed-Signal, Low-Power Techniques in Energy Harvesting Systems; Chapter 11: Toward Modeling Support for Low-Power and Harvesting Wireless Sensors for Realistic Simulation of Intelligent Energy-Aware Middleware; Chapter 12: Energy Consumption Profile for Energy Harvested WSNs; Chapter 13: Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting and Management for Wireless Sensor Networks; Back Cover.