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ABSTRACT
The ubiquity of Internet enabled smartphones and the
availability of 3G and WiFi networks enables us to always
remain connected. Applications on mobile phones such as
Facebook, Gmail, provide us a convenient way of keeping
in touch with our family and friends. RSS Readers and
News Readers help us keep ourselves upto date with the
latest news. But connecting the phone to the network
consumes a lot of energy, forcing us to choose between
connectivity and battery life. Our studies showed that
applications connecting to the network periodically looking
for updates, results in constant on-off transitions of the
network system. Earlier studies [1, Bartender] have shown
that switching the network system on and off is a very
expensive process in terms of energy consumption. We
observed that most of the applications running on the phone
do not have realtime data transfer requirements. Hence we
propose that requests from different applications must be
buffered and sent synchr
