Adaptive low power multimedia wireless communications

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for adaptive minimization of the total energy consumption in multimedia wireless communications subject to achieving a given quality of service. Our approach exploits trade-offs between the effects of energy consumed in processing (source and channel coding) and energy consumed in transmission under different noise and channel conditions, on the received quality of the multimedia. We present several simulation results involving image transmission that illustrate the energy consumption savings that can be achieved using our proposed approach.