Resource Monitoring: the Example of Network Utilization and Energy Efficiency Towards Green Communication

Green communication is a necessity within the telecommunications industry. It has led many researches to come across ideas on how to optimize telecommunication to acquire energy saving. Most of these ideas targeted the transport layer of Network systems, while this paper targets the application layer and suggests a new dynamic mechanism to improve the network and energy efficiency of Location Based System (LBS) applications. The design is based on responding to the end user after sensing his/her device capabilities and available resources, such as battery, memory and internet speed. A simplified prototype has been developed in three tiers; the user interface (client tier), the web server (application tier) and the data base development (data tier). The developed prototype was tested and evaluated in three stages: (i) A pilot test measuring the systems functionality with limited number of users synchronised on the same wireless channel. (ii)A Data flow evaluation test measuring the efficiency of the new idea in managing the data flow according to the wireless connection speed. (iii) Assessment trials were conducted in critical situations where the user's mobile device was running out of memory and/or battery resources.