Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

1-2004

Abstract

Consumers expect their mobile devices to be small and light, have a decent battery lifetime, and still be powerful enough to run all their desired applications. The need to satisfy such consumer demands has driven mobile-device manufacturers to make products (such as PDAs and cell phones) that match these needs. However, this inevitably requires tradeoffs. Building smaller, lighter devices requires sacrificing the device's battery capacity because battery technology is still fairly dense and heavy, and contributes most of a mobile device's size and weight. But, mobile devices with the required resources to run useful desktop applications need additional battery power to run those resources for a reasonable length of time. Because the tension facing manufacturers appears to be in deciding the battery-weight and battery-performance tradeoffs, the solution seems to lie in finding ways to increase a mobile device's battery lifetime.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software Systems

Publication

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volume

3

Issue

2

First Page

71

Last Page

73

ISSN

1536-1268

Identifier

10.1109/mprv.2004.1316822

Publisher

IEEE

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/mprv.2004.1316822

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