being the
power level at time during the transmission. An illustration
of power consumption in both cases is given in Fig. 2. The
burst transmission operates at state CELL_DCH to send a
total amount of data
for a duration of
then it transits
to state IDLE via state CELL_FACH, and remains there for
duration (
is the time taken for the mobile user to play the segment of size
). Note that the power consumption level during transition
periods