IEEE MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER Title: Multi-Radio Power Conservation Management Date Submitted: November 7, 2008 Presented at IEEE session #29 in Dallas Authors or Source(s): George Babut, Kevin Knoll, Dennis Edwards, Behcet Sarikaya, Junghoon Jee, Anthony Chan Abstract: MRPM Tutorial
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MRPM Tutorial Need for Mult-Radio Power Conservation Management
Multi-Radio Market (Kevin A. Noll, DCN ) The market is seeing the introduction of many dual-radio devices. For Example: GSM/WiFi and CMDA2000/WiFi phones EV-DO/WiMax on Cardbus EV-DO/WiMax on USB WiMax/WiFi on PCI-Express Also consider: The typical laptop with integrated wired and wireless LAN interfaces New Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) These are just examples. Many other variations are on the horizon.
Multi-radio Device Market (Dennis Edwards) Mobile devices that can access multiple wireless networks are the fastest growing market segment Up 42% in 2006 while unconnected devices shipments fell 41% Canalys press release (visited Nov 5, 2008) 64 million smart phones shipped worldwide in million smart phones shipped worldwide in 2006 Up 60% in 2007 Canalys press release (visited Nov 5, 2008) Smart mobile device shipments hit 118 million in 2007, up 53% on 2006 Smart mobile device shipments hit 118 million in 2007, up 53% on 2006 From less than 6 million units in 2006, combo handsets will reach nearly 190 million by In-Stat research summary (visited Nov 5, 2008) WiFi – Where’s the money?WiFi – Where’s the money?
MRPM as an enabling feature for MIH (George Babut) Power consumption is a major implementation factor in any handheld terminal Terminal power consumption, and corresponding battery life, are make-or-break adoption factors for any mobile access technology MRPM is, from that standpoint, a major enabler of implementability of multi-mode mobile handheld terminals Secondarily, MRPM as part of MIH, will augment the adoption rate of MIH, as it will increase the feasibility of power efficient multi-mode terminals
Adoption of MIH conditioned by Power Consumption in Multi-Mode Handsets (George Babut) The adoption of MIH depends on the availability of less generic alternative solutions for early implementations of vertical HO by the interested multi-domain converged operators I-WLAN and UMA are examples of early non-MIH solutions When it comes to increasing the adoption rate of MIH we need to analyze the “bottlenecks” of viable implementations of vertical HOs One major bottleneck in the implementation of multi-mode terminals is the overall power management mechanism for different radios, each with its own mechanism
UMA case experience (George Babut, DCN ) UMA is a very relevant example of how much impact the power consumption in a dual mode terminal can have upon the early adoption of dual access approaches UMA terminal is a GSM – WLAN dual terminal Early UMA terminals had unsatisfactory power consumption performance, that delayed the commercial UMA service launch
Need (5.5) As the number of multi-radio mobile devices increases, so does the need to improve the device battery life. While platform and network specific power managers exist, they operate independently without considering the overall power consumption of a multi-radio mobile device. This project will enhance battery life by providing a power management framework that enables control of multi-radio power states depending on each radio’s power consumption characteristics and each radio’s network accessibility at the current location.
MRPM Tutorial Need for Mult-Radio Power Conservation Management The problem
The Problem (Dennis Edwards) “Before employers can insist that employees use fewer devices, manufacturers need to address battery life and ergonomics issues for portable devices.” In-Stat Research summary, Current Converged Mobile Devices Fail to Compel UsersCurrent Converged Mobile Devices Fail to Compel Users
Multiple interfaces sharing a battery GPP; 3GPP GPP; 3GPP2 +–+– +–+– +–+– +–+– Multiple-interface device will drain battery fast if power consumption is optimized only within each individual network technology Single-interface device: Different technologies have different modes of operation each with different power consumption
Battery life considerations? Connectivity Different modes of operation in different technologies Active/on Off/deep sleep +–+– CDMA Sleep? Sleep? Sleep? Idle? +–+– Response time +–+– +–+– Data rate? Discharge rate? Temperature? Charge count? Battery life also depends on Play back-start Fast call set up Record-start Streaming-start Background-start PTT (interactive) Webpage-start
Enhance the user experience by extending the battery operating life of multi-radio mobile devices. (5.4) with standard and generalized framework GPP; 3GPP2 +–+– Media Independent Function MIH_SAP Command service Event Service Information Service Event service Command Service Information Service MIH_LINK_SAP Info Server
Existing Solutions (Kevin A. Noll, DCN ) End-User manually manages connections Manual configuration frustrates the end-user because: Time required to figure out which connection to use and enable it Frustrated by short battery life Knowledge required of the OS and installed interfaces to enable/disable interfaces Client-based (typically laptops) connection management software Searches for available networks Based on pre-programmed criteria the software chooses the “most desirable” network (not necessarily “best-available”) May or may not disable other interfaces (for the purpose of battery-life, network use cost-reduction, etc.)
Multi-Radio Power Conservation Management (with standard and generalized framework) Media Independent Function MIH_SAP Network 2 (e.g., 3GPP) Command service Event Service LLC_SAP Network 1 (e.g., ) LLC_SAP Information Service Event service Command Service Information Service MIH_LINK_SAP MRPM application Info Server
Scope (5.2) Define mechanisms to reduce power consumption of multi- radio mobile devices on heterogeneous IEEE compliant networks. Enhancements to the MAC/PHY of individual access technologies for making them more power efficient are outside the scope of this project.