Energy consumption of smartphones is a growing concern.
The rate at which their capabilities improve and data intensive
usage grows far exceeds the rate at which battery
technologies evolve. Streaming applications are extremely
popular nowadays but they are among the most power hungry
ones. Video streaming uses a lot of energy to receive the
content and to decode and display the video. The problem of
communication energy expenditure is severe because many
streaming services send content as constant bit rate (CBR)