Smart mobile device power consumption measurement for video streaming in wireless environments: WiFi vs. LTE

The extreme growth in the amount of mobile video streaming data over the world puts significant pressure on power consumption of smart mobile devices. In order to obtain a precise energy consumption model for smart devices streaming video and especially energy consumption for streaming video at various quality levels and with different wireless technologies, an open-source power consumption measurement platform was developed for real-time multimedia content delivery. Using this platform, real life smart device power consumption measurements were performed for different quality video delivery over both WiFi and LTE. The results are expected to be used in research for energy-aware video delivery in heterogeneous wireless network environments.