Assessing Performance and Energy Consumption in Mobile Applications

The demand for mobile devices and applications through the marketplaces has increased dramatically in recent years. Mobile applications take on even greater prominence and importance in the IT industry. Along with the growth of mobile technology, battery lifetime has become one of the most relevant challenges for this kind of device in the last few years. This paper presents a study assessing performance and energy consumption for mobile applications by means of stochastic models. In order to assist inexperienced system designers to create formal models, mapping rules were adopted to transform SysML diagrams into Deterministic and Stochastic Petri nets. The results of this work can help system designers in the design-making process in order to develop more efficient mobile applications. The estimates obtained from the models show that the proposed approach is indeed a good approximation to the respective measures obtained from the real infrastructure.