TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venkataraman,Hrishikesh
AU  - Muntean,Gabriel-Miro
TI  - Green mobile devices and networks: energy optimization and scavenging techniques 
SN  - 9781439859896 (hardback)
AV  - TK5103.2 .E545 2012
U1  - 621.38456 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Mobile communication systems
KW  - Energy conservation
KW  - Green electronics
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Circuits / General
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "Powering the astounding functional advancement of mobile devices requires a revolution in the concept of battery life and recharge capability. This book provides insight into the principles and technical challenges behind automatically optimizing energy consumption in a dynamic real-time scenario. It discusses the continuous monitoring of battery life and the automatic adjustment of different functionalities including the reception mechanism, the complexity of the software modules, and the perceived video quality. It deals with different energy scavenging techniques and the technologies behind harvesting energy through sources like solar, light, acoustics, kinetic, mechanical vibrations, and electromagnetic waves"--; 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
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