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This paper summarizes recent advances in energy efficient and low power design of networking protocols. We focus on the MAC (Medium Access Control) and application layers of the protocol stack. Of the five MAC protocols studied, EC-MAC has the best energy efficiency. EC-MAC also offers the best scalability with respect to the number of mobile terminals being serviced, as its energy consumption remains bounded. Power conservation techniques discussed for processing multimedia information at the application layer include transferring majority of the processing out of the terminal and into the network, tolerably deteriorating the video quality to lower data rates, and selectively discarding video frames.
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Agramal, P., Chen, JC., Sivalingam, K.M. (2002). Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Systems. In: Ganesh, R., Pahlavan, K., Zvonar, Z. (eds) Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 524. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47330-5_11
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