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Performance Analysis of a Dual-Battery Scheme for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Mobile Terminals P. T. Dahake and A. Chockalingam Department of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 Abstract— In this paper, we propose and analyze the perfor- increased delay performance of the packets because packets are mance of a dual-battery scheme which exploits the relaxation phe- buffered and not sent during the intentional vacations. nomenon in batteries (under pulsed discharge conditions) to in- crease the number of packets served during the life time of a bat- Our focus in this paper is to investigate multiple battery tery in wireless mobile terminals. We first adopt a queueing the- architectures with a motivation to exploit the relaxation phe- ory based approach to model and analyze a dual-battery scheme. nomenon, but without compromising on the packet delay per- The batteries serve the packets based on random scheduling, i.e., formance. In multiple battery schemes, when one battery serves a packet gets served by either the first or the second battery with a packet other batteries remain idle (during which the idle bat- probabilities and
  , respectively. We present an approxi- mate analysis to derive the expression for the expected number of teries can recover). Therefore, multiple battery schemes natu- packets served in the dual-battery scheme. We then study the per- rally allow recovery periods even without intentional vacations, formance of the proposed dual-battery scheme using the Lithium- which can avoid the penalty of increased packet delay due to ion battery simulation program from UC, Berkeley. We show intentiona