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How does energy consumption impact performance in Bluetooth?

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In this paper we investigate the power characteristics of the Bluetooth technology when supporting low-power modes. We provide accurate power consumption measurements for different Bluetooth operating modes. Such information could be used to drive technical decisions on battery type and design of Bluetooth-based end systems. Finally, we examine the trade-off between power consumption and performance for a commercial off-the-shelf Bluetooth device. We find that the use of the sniff mode could be quite compatible with the use of multi-slot data packets. However, when the channel conditions require selecting single slot data packets, the sniff mode highly impact performance, and so the power/delay trade-off must be taken into consideration.

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                  cover image ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
                  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review  Volume 35, Issue 3
                  December 2007
                  73 pages
                  ISSN:0163-5999
                  DOI:10.1145/1328690
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