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10 Milestones Paving The Way To The iPad's Fifth Birthday
A lot has changed five years after the iPad first went on sale. CRN takes a look at the ups and downs behind Apple's constantly evolving tablet.
Microsoft Plants Its Hardware Flag: First Look At The Surface Book, Surface 4 And The Rest Of Its New Gear
Microsoft doubles down on devices with its first-ever laptop, plus Surface 4, new Lumia phones and other new devices.
Cisco's Internet-Of-Things Push: New IoT Solutions, Technology Partnerships
Cisco unleashed several new solutions for channel partners to find new revenue opportunities targeting IoT.
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Dell says the new Precision Mobile Workstations represent 'huge leaps in performance.' Here are some of the key features and stats of the updated portfolio.
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An air traffic controller drinks a cup of coffee while working in a terminal radar approach control room Monday, April 18, 2011 at the Atlanta TRACON... View Enlarged Image
Five years ago, a Comair flight taxied onto the wrong runway at the airport in Lexington, Ky., and crashed on takeoff, killing 49 of the 50 people aboard. It turned out that the lone air controller on duty who should have caught the mistake was operating on two hours of sleep. Two years before that, a tired controller nearly let two commercial jets collide on an LAX runway.
Now, in the wake of a raft of air traffic controllers caught sleeping on the job, the Federal Aviation Administration issued new rules to combat fatigue. But this problem has dogged the FAA for years.
Fatigue is just one piece of a long history of FAA management problems with the air traffic control (ATC) system, according to an IBD review of government reports and audits and various news accounts. Just last week, the Transportation Department's inspector general announced two audits focusing on air traffic controller mistakes.
To some, this record calls into question whether the FAA can be trusted to fix the problems plaguing the ATC.
Reason Foundation transportation expert Robert Poole, for example, argues that the FAA's problems stem from its dual role as operator and regulator of air traffic control, which he says "creates a potential conflict of interest."
FAA head Randy Babbitt said recently that "employees at the FAA work diligently every day to run the safest air transportation system in the world." And an FAA spokesman told IBD that while the Air Traffic Organization is part of the FAA, "it's regulated by another group that is independent of the ATO's chain of command."
Still, federal reports and audits point to several ongoing problems with the ATC:
Fatigue: A 1989 Government Accountability Office warned the ATC system was plagued with shortages, heavy work loads and excessive overtime. A 2009 Department of Transportation inspector general report found a "number of factors" leading to fatigue among controllers. A National Transportation Safety Board member complained that "for 30 years, the board has identified fatigue as an issue with controllers' schedules."
Inexperienced controllers: The FAA tries to limit the number of trainees at control towers for safety reasons, saying in 2005 that it would "ensure an appropriate ratio." But a 2008 IG report found too many trainees at more than one in five air traffic control facilities. A 2010 report warned that new controllers, many of whom had no prior experience, were being assigned to some of the busiest airports.
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Queen Alexandra; Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; King Edward VII
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Queen Alexandra; Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; King Edward VII
by Vernon Heath
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (93 mm x 57 mm) image size
Given by A.W. Russell Moller, 1955
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- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), Eldest son of Edward VII. Sitter in 114 portraits.
- Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Queen of Edward VII. Sitter associated with 459 portraits, Artist associated with 10 portraits.
- King Edward VII (1841-1910), Reigned 1901-1910. Sitter associated with 486 portraits.
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The effects that i usally use are Adultshader, Autoluminous, Diffusion, o_diffusion, cheap lens, simple soft shadow, furshader, kira kira, o-selfoverlay, ssao, O_ssao, o_surplusfiltre, softlightHLshader+, Khef1, Khef2
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Currently no and I might never since I'm not a master of anything I do on this profile.
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You surely can. Usually i put my self as invisible but feel free to leave comment.
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My older edits are badly rigged so I'm sorry but you can't. If you mean a model that has been removed or disconnected that was made by someone else then I'm sorry I don't like to redistribute.
6. This character is named ____ why did you credit ___ instead.
When I do credits and get to the character part, I mean that the character is owned by that person not the name of the character?
7. Can i tag you in in journal Memes?
you can BUT I perfer to be tagged in ones that aren't the question and answer type. Ones in which you put an X in the [] are okay with me or unique ones like the music name tag are find with me.
8. Why don't you place the credits with the Icons or dev?
Well I am pretty shy so i prefer not to be known to them since if you add the icons or dev it shows up in the mentions. Plus my edits are nothing special to be mentioned about.
9. Can i feature/submit your art to a group or journal or feature you in an way?
If you want to you can. I wouldn't call my art that great but if you want to feature go right on ahead.
10. Are you no longer doing lat edits?
Well I think I will do them from time to time but I wanted to experiment on another base this year.
11. Can you feature my adopts, contest, product, ect on your journal?
I don't mind adding you but you must ask me first since if you are to advertise on my profile without telling me what to do I'm just thinking you are just advertising and won't add you to my journal.
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After several years of back-and-forth rulings, an appeals court in Washington, D.C. has ruled today that the NSA's controversial bulk phone data collection program can indeed continue… at least until November, when it gets shut down anyway because Congress changed the law in June. [More]
Court Rules NSA Phone Data Collection That Is Now Changing Anyway Is Still Legal
Court: NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Program Is Illegal
A federal appeals court has ruled this morning that the NSA's controversial bulk phone data collection program is in violation of federal law. [More]
Congress Has One Month Left To Change Or Renew Controversial Bulk Phone Data Surveillance Program
It's been two years since we found out that the NSA has been quietly scooping up basically everyone's phone records, willy-nilly, without warrants. The revelations of widespread surveillance freaked plenty of people out, but under existing law, the agency has acted legally. To get change, then, you'd need to change the law… and Congress has 33 days remaining in which to do exactly that. [More]
Snooping Sites, Aimless Ads, Sexist Stereotypes: A Look Back At The Week In Tech News
It's a big, busy world, and even with a smartphone in your pocket at all times it's hard to read everything written about it in a week. Sometimes, useful info slips through the cracks. So, here are five interesting stories from the world of internet and technology news. [More]
Google, Rest of Internet Urge Congress To Change NSA Surveillance Laws
A large coalition of internet companies and advocacy groups has declared today "The Day We Fight Back" against mass surveillance. The coalition is urging US citizens to contact their legislators to ask for Congressional intervention on mass surveillance programs. [More]
Your E-ZPass Might Be Tracking You Everywhere, Not Just Tollbooths
When you get a toll-paying transponder like the E-ZPass, you assume that it just sort of sits there until you drive through a toll booth. That's not true. Maybe, according to a recent presentation at DEFCON, you should put your E-ZPass away unless you're actually paying a toll right now. [More]
Verizon may have admitted it gives out customer info without warrants, but AT&T and Qwest both refused to give Congress any information on their participation in the government's wire-tapping activities, saying they needed permission from Bush administration first. [Reuters]
Congress Asks AT&T, Verizon, And Qwest About Warrantless Wiretapping
Qwest, Verizon, and AT&T have until October 12th to provide information on how the government went about asking for private customer records, and how the three companies provided the information. The Committee on Energy and Commerce opened an official investigation Tuesday. "If reports about the government surveillance program are accurate, Congress has a duty to inquire about whether such a program violates the Constitution, as well as consumer protection and privacy laws," said committee chairman Rep. John Dingell.


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|Publication number
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|Application number
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|Jul 21, 2009
|Filing date
|May 8, 2002
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|May 8, 2002
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|Edwin Hernandez, Arun Ayyagari, Timothy M. Moore, Krishna Ganugapati, Pradeep Bahl
|Original Assignee
|Microsoft Corporation
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|Patent Citations (22), Non-Patent Citations (57), Referenced by (30), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates generally to wireless computing devices, and more particularly to the power management in wireless computing devices having batteries for power sources.
Wireless computing devices, such as laptop computers, personal digital assistant devices, etc., that communicate with other devices through wireless transmissions are becoming increasingly popular. Wireless computing devices are typically battery-powered. Since the amount of power a battery can provide is rather limited, how to minimizing power consumption to extend the operation time of the device powered by the battery is an important issue for those devices.
One component in a wireless device that consumes a significant amount of power is the network interface module, which handles wireless transmission and reception of network communication data. It has been estimated that on the average about 20% of the total power consumed by a wireless laptop computer is spent on wireless LAN interface communications. Most of that energy is used for wireless data transmissions and receptions. In order to reduce the power consumption, most wireless devices employ a power-management scheme that allows the network interface module to be switched between different power states with different power consumption levels. Those states include high-power states in which the transmitter is powered up to enable the transmission and reception of network communication data, and low-power states in which the network interface module is put in a sleep mode or turned-off. The time period in which the network interface module is put in a low-power state is often referred to as the "idle time." Since the transmitter is turned off when the network interface module is in a low-power state, the transmission of network traffic data is delayed, and the delayed traffic data have to be temporarily stored in queue, waiting to be transmitted when the network interface module is switched back to the high-power state. A significant amount of delayed network traffic data may be accumulated in the transmission queue if the interface network card is put in the low-power states too often or for too long. Thus, it is necessary to strike a reasonable balance between saving the battery power and avoiding undue network traffic congestion. Accordingly, there is a need for a new power management scheme for determining when to switch the network interface module of a wireless device into a low-power state and for how long to provide sufficient power saving without causing excessive delay and accumulation of the network traffic (i.e., traffic congestion).
In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a power management scheme for operating the network interface module of a wireless computing device. The power management scheme uses network traffic statistical data to derive parameters of a mathematical model for predicting the amount of delayed traffic data that will accumulate as a function of the length of time the network interface module stays in a low-power state. The parameters may include, for instance, an average inter-arrival rate of traffic data packets at the network interface module and an average service rate of the system in processing the traffic data packets. Based on the mathematical model and the derived parameters, the wireless device calculates the value of a target idle time for which the predicted amount of accumulated traffic data in the queue is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
If the wireless device is associated with an access point of an infrastructure wireless network, the network interface module of the device is set to the low-power state for the calculated target idle time. If the device is associated with an ad hoc network, the device first broadcasts its target idle time in the ad hoc network and listens to the target idle times calculated and broadcast by the other wireless devices in the ad hoc network. The device then selects the smallest idle time broadcast by the wireless devices in the network as a common idle time for the devices, and switches the network interface module to the low-power state for that common idle time.
While the appended claims set forth the features of the present invention with particularity, the invention and its advantages may be best understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, of which:
This invention operates in a wireless device having a network interface module for wirelessly accessing a wireless network and a power source, such as a battery pack or the like, that has a limited amount of energy stored therein. Since the network interface module can consume a significant amount of power with its transmitter turned on, it is desirable to reduce the power consumption by putting the network interface module in a low-power state in which the transmitter and receiver are in a reduced power consumption state. The invention provides a power management scheme to do so. Prior to describing the invention in detail with reference to
The invention may be implemented in a system employing various types of machines, including cell phones, hand-held devices, wireless surveillance devices, microprocessor-based programmable consumer electronics, and the like, using instructions, such as program modules, that are executed by a processor. Generally, program modules include routines, objects, components, data structures and the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The term "program" includes one or more program modules.
The device 100 may also contain one or more communications connections 112 that allow the device to communicate with other devices. The communications connections 112 are an example of communication media. Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. As discussed above, the term computer readable media as used herein includes both storage media and communication media.
The device 100 may also have one or more input devices 114 such as keyboard, mouse, pen, voice input device, touch-input device, etc. One or more output devices 116 such as a display, speakers, printer, etc. may also be included. All these devices are well known in the art and need not be discussed at greater length here.
In keeping with the intended application of the invention, the device 100 is configured as a wireless mobile device. To that end, the device 100 is provided with a portable power source 120, such as a battery pack, a fuel cell, or the like. The power source 120 provides power for computations and wireless data transmissions by the device 100. As shown in
Through the wireless network interface module, the wireless computing device 100 may communicate with different types of wireless networks. For instance, in the illustrated environment of
A network driver 208 controls the operation of the network interface module 201. The network driver 208 is either part of the operating system of the wireless device 100 or a separate executable program running on the wireless device 100. An exemplary network driver is the Windows Management Instrument (WMI) of Microsoft Corporation. The network driver 208 includes a power manager 202 for managing the power consumption of the network interface module in accordance with the invention as described below. A system queue 205 is used to store communication packets from a user 210 that are to waiting to be sent out by the transmitter 122. The system queue is also used to store packets received by the receiver 126.
The device 100 further includes a database 204 for storing traffic statistics data, which are used in the power management scheme of the invention for determining a target idle time for the network interface module as will be described in greater detail below. The queue 205 and the traffic statistics database 204 may reside in the system memory 104, the removable storage 108 or the non-removable storage 110 in
A stochastic decider 203 of the power manager 202 analyzes, using stochastic methods, the traffic statistics data in the database 204 to identify the historical pattern of the wireless traffic and make power management decisions. Based on the decisions provided by the stochastic decider 203, the power manager 202 dynamically switches the network interface module 201 between a high-power state in which the transmitter is powered up for transmitting packets and a low-power state in which the transmitter is turned off to save energy.
As mentioned above, the network interface module 201 has multiple power states, including a high-power state for transmitting or receiving wireless data packets, and a low-power state. In the low-power state, the network interface module is either in a sleep mode or turned off. The selection between the sleep mode and the off mode typically depends on the surrounding environment. For instance, if a sophisticated authentication mechanism like IEEE 802.1x is used during the session, the NIM may be turned into sleep mode only. In contrast, in a home where authentication is simple or none, the NIM may be turned off completely for higher power savings.
In the high-power state, because the transmitter 122 is powered up, a significant amount of power is consumed. In contrast, in the low-power state, the transmitter and the receiver are in reduced power consumption states, resulting in a significant reduction of power consumption. Whether to set the network interface module 201 into a high-power state or a low-power state should depend on the amount of traffic data accumulated in the system queue to avoid serious delay in processing the queued traffic data. For example, when the amount of the queued traffic data is large, the network interface module should operate in the high-power state to process the queued traffic data. On the other hand, when the amount of the queued traffic data is small, the network interface module 201 may be allowed to "doze" or be turned-off to save power. To achieve efficient power usage, the profile of power states of the network interface module 201 should ideally follow the profile of the time-dependent generation of the traffic data, which generally has random characteristics in real applications but can be predicted statistically.
In keeping with this concept, the present invention provides a power management scheme that uses historical traffic statistics data to analyze the traffic generation pattern up to the current point of time, and uses the results of the analysis to predict how much undelivered network traffic will be accumulated if the network interface module is put in the low-power state for a period of time (called the "idle time"). A target idle time that does not result in excessive delay in processing the accumulated traffic data (i.e., "traffic congestion") is then selected.
More particularly, the amount of unprocessed traffic data that is expected to accumulate in the system queue when the interface module is put in the low-power state is predicted with a mathematical model. The parameters of that mathematical model are derived by analyzing the traffic statistics data. Based on the mathematical model with the derived parameters, a calculation is performed to determine a target idle time for which the expected traffic accumulation is less than or equal to a pre-determined threshold.
In this regard, the pre-determined threshold represents a practical limit of the amount of traffic that will be delayed due to the turning off of the transmitter. In this regard, the operating system and applications have buffers to store and maintain information while transferring it via a network connection. The threshold may be selected, for example, to correspond to the minimum buffer size that can be held without causing packet loss during a scheduled power savings state on the wireless card.
In one embodiment, the parameters of the mathematical model that are derived from the traffic statistics data include an average inter-arrival rate and an average data service rate. That mathematical model and the derivation of these two parameters are described in greater detail below. Generally, congestion is the amount of packets that cannot be serviced prior to a timeout, or packets that are lost because the available buffer size is exceeded. The inter-arrival rate refers to the rate that the packets get to the server from a remote destination. Although packets may arrive to a host at a certain rate, the packets that are being sent by the host are serviced at a different rate that corresponds to the average time the network process a specific packet. Under transient network conditions data traffic is delayed at certain points when packets arrive at a higher rate than they are being serviced by the network. In general, in a networking environment this might happen at the access point level where many mobile hosts might be connected and the average service rate per network node is temporarily reduced. Ad-hoc networks with intra- or inter-network connectivity might not encounter the problems that are present in shared-media access (Access Point). For a stable network, the average service rate is greater than or equal to the average arrival rate under steady state conditions.
Returning to
In one embodiment, the traffic statistics data include a set of historical inter-arrival rates and a set of historical service rates. Each historical inter-arrival rate represents a number of traffic data elements (such as packets) that arrived at the network interface module in a certain unit-time interval in the past. Each service-rate represents a number of processed traffic data by the network interface module in a unit-time interval. To statistically describe the retrieved distribution data, an inter-arrival distribution function and a service-rate distribution function are defined. In particular, the inter-arrival rate distribution function models the dependency of the inter-arrival rates on the time interval, while the service rate distribution models the dependency of the service rates on the time interval. From the retrieved historical traffic distribution data, the stochastic decider 203 extracts a set of parameters including an average inter-arrival rate and an average service-rate based on their respective distribution functions. From the extracted average inter-arrival and service rates, the stochastic decider 203 can predict the amount of traffic data that will be added to the system queue if the network interface module is put in the low-power state for a given length of idle time. Generally, more power is saved if the idle time is made longer. The amount of delayed traffic data, however, also increases with the idle time. Thus, it is necessary to select an idle time that is reasonably long to allow substantial power saving but not too long to cause unacceptable traffic jam. The balance is achieved by setting a target idle time that is expected to cause an amount of delayed traffic that is up to a pre-selected threshold. After the determination of the idle time, the power manager 202 measures the current inter-arrival rate and service rates of the network interface module and updates the historical distribution data stored in the historical database 204.
If the idle time determined is either invalid or zero, the network interface module 201 is kept in the high-power state, which is the default power-state of the network interface module 201. If the determined idle time is valid, whether the network interface module will be put in the low-power state for the calculated target idle time depends on whether the wireless device is connected to an infrastructure network or to an ad hoc network. If the wireless device 100 is connected to the access point 231 of the infrastructure network, the power manager 202 switches the network interface module 201 to the low-power state for the calculated idle time. On the other hand, if the wireless device 100 is associated with the ad hoc network 220, the wireless device 100 broadcasts its calculated idle time in the ad hoc network 220, and listens to the idle time values broadcast by the other wireless devices 221, 222 and 223. Each of the wireless devices in the ad hoc network, including the device 100, then selects the smallest one of the broadcast idle time values as the idle time to be used.
Thereafter, the network interface module 201 is set to the low-power state and kept in the low-power state for the smallest idle time by the power manager 202.
Sometimes the wireless device 100 may find that it is not connected to an access point of an infrastructure network or another device in an ad hoc network. In that situation, the wireless device 100 periodically enters a scan mode in which it listens for probe request and probe response signals from other devices it may connect to. In one embodiment, the power management scheme defines a duty cycle including an active period and a sleep period, where the sum of the two periods equal to a fixed scan time, such as the scan time specified by the wireless configuration service for IEEE 802.11. Thus, in each cycle, the network interface module 201 stays in the low-power state for the sleep time for reduced power and then switched to the high-power state for the active period, during which it performs the scanning.
In carrying out the power management scheme, the wireless device 100 may be modeled as a power state machine 300 as illustrated in
After the start of the system, the network interface module is set to the "on" state 301 as default. At this point, the wireless device is not yet connected to a network. The interface module periodically (every scan time interval Tscan) enters the "scan" state 302 and scans networks by sending probe request signals according to the IEEE 802.11 standard. After the wireless device forms a wireless network connection, the stochastic decider 103 periodically calculates a target idle time based on the traffic statistics data in the database 204.
If the calculated idle time is zero or an invalid value, the network interface module 201 stays at the "on" state 301. Otherwise, if the calculated idle time is valid and the wireless device is connected to an infrastructure network, the network interface module transitions to the "doze" state 304 and stays in that state for the calculated idle time to save power. After the idle time is up, the network interface module transits back to the "on" state 301. During the idle time, the network interface module may transit to the "off" state 303. When the idle time is up, the network interface module transits back to the "on" state 301.
As described above, the idle time is calculated based on a mathematical model that predicts the amount of traffic delay as a function of the idle time and a pre-selected threshold of traffic delay. The calculated idle time may be longer than the scan time specified by the wireless configuration service for IEEE 802.11, which is shown in
The following description describes the mathematical modeling used in one embodiment for calculating a target idle time for the network interface module. Referring to
Pr exp=1−e −λ
where λ0, α, and β are variables to be determined from the data, and t is the elapsed time. By applying the exponential and the Pareto distribution functions to the retrieved data of inter-arrival rates and service rates, respectively, the average inter-arrival rate of requests λave and the average service rate μave are extracted (step 503). In particular, the average inter-arrival rate λave is calculated as follows:
wherein λt is the ith inter-arrival rate. The average service rate μave is calculated as follows:
The idle time Tidle is initialized to the inverse of the average inter-arrival rate of request λave and the activation time Ton, to the inverse of the average service rate μave (step 504), as shown respectively in equations 5 and 6.
T idle=1/λave (equation 5)
T on=1/μave (equation 6)
Given the initialized idle time and activation time, it is determined (step 505) whether the summation of the idle time and activation time exceeds the scan time Tscan specified by wireless configuration service for IEEE 802.11. If it is not, indicting that the traffic data in the system queue may be larger, wherein the idle time Tidle is re-set to the difference of the scan time Tscan and the activation time Ton (step 510), as shown in equation 7.
T idle =T scan −T on (equation 7)
The historical distribution information is updated (step 511) by collecting the current traffic statistical distribution information including the current inter-arrival rates, service rates and number of traffic data in the system queue and saving the collected distribution data into the database 204 in
If the sum of the initialized idle time and activation time exceeds the scan time interval specified by IEEE 802.11, indicating that the amount of the traffic data in the system queue in the near future may be small and the network interface module may doze for a relatively long period, the idle time calculation process continues. The stochastic decider predicts the amount of traffic data in the system queue Q according to the modeled historical distribution data (step 506). The traffic data has two contributions, one from the wireless device, represented by Nwd, and another one from the traffic data of another wireless device, for example, an access point or a wireless device in an ad hoc network, represented by Nap. Nwd may be solved by equation 8.
N wd =k p+λave T scan−μave T on (equation 8)
where kp is the number of residue traffic data in the system queue of the wireless device. The term λaveTscan represents the average number of traffic data arrived during the scan time, and the term μaveTon represents the average number of traffic data processed by the wireless device and have been sent out. Similarly, Nap may be calculated as following.
N ap=μave T scan−λave T on (equation 9)
where the term μaveTscan indicates the average number of traffic data processed by the other wireless device during the scan period, and the term λaveTon represents the average number of traffic data arrived at the other wireless device during the period of activation. The difference between the two terms provides the expected average number of traffic data transmitted to the wireless device. Combining equations 8 and 9, the predicted amount of traffic data in the system queue can be expressed as:
Q=N wd +N ap=λave T idle−μave T idle +k p (equation 10)
According to the invention, the network interface module may be set to the low-power state if the expected amount of delayed traffic data in the system queue is small. To that end, a pre-selected traffic threshold ε is used to represent an upper limit of acceptable amount of delayed traffic data. For instance, the ε may have been selected to be 1500 bits. The expected amount of traffic Q is set equal to ε as in equation 11, and the idle time is then obtained according to equation and 12 (step 507).
Q=N wd +N ap=λave T idle−μave T idle +k p=
T idle=(ε−k p)/(λave−μave) (equation 12)
If equation 12 does not yield a positive solution of Tidle (step 508), the idle time is set to zero (step 509). A positive value, on the other hand, indicates a valid idle time. The network traffic distribution information is updated (step 511). The stochastic decider provides the idle time to the power manager (step 512).
As mentioned above, in addition to managing power consumptions in wireless devices while they are connected to a network, the power management scheme also periodically puts the wireless network interface module in the low-power state when the wireless device has not yet connected to a wireless network. This aspect of the power management scheme is now discussed with reference to
Referring to
In the following, a way to estimate the power saved as a function of the length of the idle time is discussed. It is assumed that a first wireless device is in a vicinity of a second wireless device, and the two wireless devices are trying to communicate with each other by sending probe request signals. The probability X of the second wireless device receives the probe request sent by the first wireless device can be expressed as X=R/D, wherein R is the waiting period and D is the duration of the duty cycle as shown in
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Approximately 130 players have attended the past two events and according to Showcase Director Mike Spiers, that number should be easily surpassed for this event.
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Maybe the most interesting player from the 2007 to look back on was C Kyle Skipworth, now acknowledged as top receiving prospect for the 2008 draft. Skipworth had relatively limited experience behind the plate at that point in his career and was just coming off a successful football season as a strong armed quarterback. Skipworth received a "9" on the PG grading scale, where "10" is the top grade.
The notes from the Perfect Game scouts make it obvious why Skipworth's grade wasn't consistent with some of the other top prospects. His catching skills were very raw in all areas and his pop times were generally in the 2.0 – 2.1 range. One note said "looks new to the position……may end up at 1B or the OF….can be coached." His hitting notes were more positive, highlighting his power potential, concluding "strong follow, major hitter might be in there."
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Amy and Jerrys Home! <3January 5, 2013Home • United States
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Originally posted on Pro Sports Daily | Last updated 9/20/12
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Rays manager Joe Maddon is not so beholden to his charts and statistics to indulge the occasional hunch or wild notion. So amid a streak where the Rays have lost four straight and seven of eight, Maddon joked on Thursday that he might have found the answer: he lost a prize pair of his iconic eyeglasses bought in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, just before the team left for a road trip where it made a spectacle of its postseason hopes with a 1-5 slide. "I checked the car. I checked the house," he joked, although he really wants the glasses back. "Please, if you find them ...." The glasses were still nowhere to be found on Wednesday night, but the Rays relocated their offense, at least briefly, in a 13-3 rout of the Boston Red Sox. All but eliminated from postseason contention because of a woeful offensive production during a stretch in which they lost four straight and seven of eight, the Rays erupted for seven runs in the sixth inning off four reli...
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