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Battery modeling for energy-aware system design

2003; IEEE Computer Society; Volume: 36; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mc.2003.1250886

1558-0814

Ravishankar Rao, Sarma Vrudhula, Daler Rakhmatov,

Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks

Advances in battery technology have not kept pace with rapidly growing energy demands. Most laptops, handheld PCs, and cell phones use batteries that take anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours to fully charge but can run on this charge for only a few hours. The battery has thus become a key control parameter in the energy management of portables. To meet the stringent power budget of these devices, researchers have explored various architectural, hardware, software, and system-level optimizations to minimize the energy consumed per useful computation. Research in battery-aware optimization is now moving from stand-alone devices to networks of wireless devices, specifically, ad hoc and distributed sensor networks. Computationally feasible mathematical models are now available that capture battery discharge characteristics in sufficient detail to let designers develop an optimization strategy that extracts maximum charge.