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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Power management of a network by increasing a number of adjacent flows that share a computing device
Zihua Guo, Beijing, CN;
Richard Yuqi Yao, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Wenwu Zhu, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Xin Wang, Tsinghua University, CN;
Zihua Guo, Beijing, CN;
Richard Yuqi Yao, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Wenwu Zhu, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Xin Wang, Tsinghua University, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A power management technique for a network including a plurality of computing devices. The power management technique includes identifying an order in which one or more devices of the plurality of computing devices can transmit data within the prescribed time period. In one aspect, the number of wakeups are reduced for the computing devices within the network by increasing a number of adjacent channel time allocation periods within a prescribed time period that share a common computing device. In one aspect, the network can be based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA).