SleepWell forces WiFi to attend its turn, keeps gadgets well-rested

Ever feel like your WiFi devices’ battery-lives are when not surrounded by peers and passersby? In line with Duke University grad student Justin Manweiler and assistant professor Romit Roy Choudhury, this phenomenon is because of gadgets constantly fighting to retrieve a similar data. Their Systems Networking Research Group has created a program dubbed SleepWell to relieve the congestion; it puts WiFi to rest until the trail is apparent for accessing the categorical data it needs, and give improved power management each of the while. The tech was shown off at MobiSys 2011 this past week and reportedly works well “across a variety device types and situations.” Notably, Microsoft and Nokia (amongst others like Verizon) are backing up the project, which makes us cautiously optimistic that it is usually headed for WP7 (or Windows 8, for that matter) in due time. There is not any info on whether SleepWell will ever be distributed commercially, but may we recommend an LTE version to aid out big V’s poor ol’ T-Bolt ?

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