Abstract

OF THE DISSERTATION Energy-Aware Wireless Communications by Curt Schurgers Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, 2002 Professor Mani B. Srivastava, Chair Embedded systems are evolving from single stand-alone entities into true networks of wirelessly connected devices, providing ubiquitous access and sensor-based information gathering. A key challenge is the management of energy in these systems, as they are battery powered for untethered operation. More and more, their energy consumption is dominated not by data processing, but by wireless communication. To ensure economic viability, this communication energy has to be reduced beyond what is achievable through digital circuit techniques, improvements in semiconductor technology, or advances in radio architectures alone.

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