Dynamic lookahead mechanism for conserving power in multi-player mobile games

—As the current generation of mobile smartphones become more powerful, they are being used to perform more resource intensive tasks making battery lifetime a major bottleneck. In this paper, we present a technique called dynamic AoV lookahead for reducing wireless interface power consumption upto 50% while playing a popular, yet resource intensive, mobile multiplayer games.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Karthik Thirugnanam, Bhojan Anand, Jeena Sebastian, Pravein G. Kannan, Akkihebbal L. Ananda, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Mun Choon Chan
• Keywords: Battery Lifetime, Communications, INFOCOM 2012, Power Consumption, Wireless Interface