Title :
Application-specific workload shaping in multimedia-enabled personal mobile devices
Author :
Chakraborty, Samarjit ; Raman, Balaji
Author_Institution :
Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Today, most personal mobile devices (e.g. cell phones and PDAs) are multimedia-enabled and support a variety of concurrently running applications such as audio/video players, word processors and Web browsers. Media-processing applications are often computationally expensive and most of these devices typically have 100 - 400 MHz processors. As a result, the user-perceived application response times are often poor when multiple applications are concurrently fired. In this paper we show that by using application-specific dynamic buffering techniques, the workload of these applications can be suitably "shaped" to fit the available processor bandwidth. Our techniques are analogous to traffic shaping which is widely used in communication networks to optimally utilize network bandwidth. Such shaping techniques have recently attracted a lot of attention in the context of embedded systems design (e.g. for dynamic voltage scaling). However, they have not been exploited for enhanced schedulability of multiple applications, as we do in this paper.
Keywords :
buffer storage; embedded systems; multimedia computing; scheduling; application-specific workload shaping; embedded systems design; media-processing applications; multimedia-enabled personal mobile devices; traffic shaping; user-perceived application response times; Bandwidth; Cellular phones; Communication networks; Computer applications; Context; Delay; Dynamic voltage scaling; Embedded system; Personal digital assistants; Telecommunication traffic; mobile devices; multimedia systems; schedulability analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, 2006. CODES+ISSS '06. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-370-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1-59593-370-0
DOI :
10.1145/1176254.1176259