Distributed Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition

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Designing Energy-Aware Sensor Systems

N. Vijaykrishnan

The Pennsylvania State University

M.J. Irwin

The Pennsylvania State University

M. Kandemir

The Pennsylvania State University

L. Li

The Pennsylvania State University

G. Chen

The Pennsylvania State University

B. Kang

The Pennsylvania State University

28.1    Introduction

28.2    Sources of Power Consumption

28.3    Power Optimizations: Different Stages of System Design

28.4    Energy Reduction Techniques

Supply Voltage, Frequency and Threshold Voltage Scaling • Shutting Down Idle Components • Computational Offloading • Energy Aware Routing

28.5    Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

28.1    Introduction

Power and related metrics have become important design constraints in computing ...