POWER MANAGEMENT OF MIMO NETWORK INTERFACES

ON MOBILE SYSTEMS

Abstract—High-speed wireless network interfaces are among the most

power-hungry components on mobile systems. This is particularly true for

multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) network interfaces which use multiple

RF chains simultaneously. In this paper, we present a novel power

management solution for MIMO network interfaces on mobile systems, called

antenna management.The key idea is to adaptively disable a subset of

antennas and their RF chains to reduce circuit power consumption, when the

capacity improvement of using a large number of antennas is small. Antenna

management judiciously determines the number of active antennas to

minimize energy per bit while satisfying the data rate requirement. This

work provides both theoretical framework and system design of antenna

management. We first present an algorithm that efficiently solves the

problem of minimizing energy per bit and, then offer its 802.11n-compliant

system designs. We employ both MATLAB-based simulation and prototype-

based experiment to validate the energy efficiency benefit of antenna

management. The results showthat antenna management can achieve 21%

one-end energy per bit reduction to the front end of the MIMO network

interface, compared to a static MIMO configuration that keeps all antennas

active.
BLOCK DIAGRAM:

 Existing Scheme: In Later, less power-saving mechanism and energy

per bit is more. The number of antennas is less and less transmit data

will occur, it consumes more energy. Antenna management achieves

18% two end energy per bit reduction and 30% one end energy per bit

reduction.

 Proposed Scheme: In this project, power-saving mechanism is

presented, antenna management, to maximize the energy efficiency of

the MIMO network interface on mobile systems. Antenna

management can be realized with little change to the 802.11n

 protocol to maximize the energy efficiency of a single end or both ends

of a MIMO link. Antenna management achieves 13% two end energy

per bit reduction and 21%one end energy per bit reduction.

MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO)

technologies are considered as a leading candidate for the next-generation

wireless broadband, due to their capability to significantly increase link

capacity . They have been adopted by current and emerging mobile wireless

standards such as 802.11n, WiMAX, and LTE. The key idea of MIMO is to

simultaneously use multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver. By

properly leveraging the multipath effect, MIMO can significantly boost

channel capacity compared to a traditional single-input-single-output (SISO)

link. Note that in this work we use “antenna” to refer to the passive antenna

and the corresponding RF chain that powers it unless otherwise specified. To

address the power challenge, we propose a novel power management

solution called antenna management. Antenna management dynamically

determines the number of active antennas and transmit power for each
active antenna, in order to minimize the energy consumption for delivering

each data bit, or achieve minimum MIMO energy per bit, while guaranteeing

a required data rate. The key rationale behind antenna management is the

mobility of mobile systems. As mobile systems move around, they encounter

different propagation environments, which can lead to different capacity

benefit from using multiple antennas. Since the circuit power cost of using

one active antenna is fixed, different environments may lead to different

numbers of antennas to achieve the minimum energy per bit. For example,

an indoor environment with rich multipath effect can provide a MIMO

channel higher capacity improvement than an outdoor environment with a

dominant line-of-sight (LOS) path can. As a result, a larger number of

antennas is more likely to be optimal for the indoor environment.

Software Used:

Xilinx ISE 8.1i

Expected Result:

This work provides both theoretical framework and system design of

antenna management. We first present an algorithm that efficiently solves

the problem of minimizing energy per bit and, then offer its 802.11n-

compliant system designs. We employed MATLAB-based simulation