UPnP-enabled resource delegation for battery-constrained devices
Wouter Haerick, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2005
While considerable efforts have been made to extend the autonomy of mobile home devices, there remain many every-day applications that heavily impact the battery lifetime.In order to save battery resources, a platform independent framework is proposed to delegate the main power consuming tasks to fixed computational resources inside the home.To allow selecting the most appropriate resource, a delegation algorithm is presented.This delegation algorithm considers both the characteristics of the requesting mobile application as the real-time data collected from local resource monitors, and optimizes the resource utilization within the home network.In addition, an implementation of the resource delegation framework is described which is based on the open standards UPnP and OSGi.As most of the home applications have stringent real-time constraints, the paper also explains the minimum delay inherent to the framework.