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Mobile phones are becoming pervasively used to access Internet and multimedia contents due to their increasing processing power and its wide range of featured wireless communication technologies (Infrared, Bluetooth, NFC, GSM, UMTS, HSPA, WiMax, LTE). In this paper we also introduce mobile devices as a pervasive testbed platform to characterize the energy consumption profile of Internet services. The most innovative advantage provided by our solution is the testbed’s flexibility and simplicity, making it possible to carry out extensive testing campaigns using actual mobile devices in live networks with real services.
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This tool is oriented to commercial devices, for this reason it is not possible to the verify levels provided by it. But according to 3GPP UMTS Test Specification 25.133, clause 9.1.3, the minimum requirements for absolute accuracy in normal conditions for RSSI measurements are + −6dB. This means that UMTS User Equipment must provide values within that range with a confidence level of 95%. Similarly, the minimum requirements for Absolute Accuracy in measurements of the User Equipment transmitted power, set an allowed range of + −4 dB, as per TS 25.133 clause 9.1.6.
We carried out measurements with different durations; finally, we decided that 9 min measurements were adequate to obtain representative values while keeping a reasonable amount of testing time.
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This work has been funded both by the Spanish government sponsored project TIN 2008-05932 and by project P07-TIC-03131 funded by the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
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Díaz Zayas, A., Merino Gómez, P. A Testbed for Energy Profile Characterization of IP Services in Smartphones over Live Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 15, 330–343 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-010-0228-8
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