High-level thermal profiling of mobile applications

Power consumption and heat dissipation are the major factors that limit the performance and mobility of battery powered devices. As they become key elements in the design of mobile devices and their applications, different power and thermal management strategies have been proposed and implemented during the last years in order to overcome the mobility limitation due to the battery lifetime. These design strategies are usually implemented at the lower levels of the systems, but one research direction in software development is to implement thermal and power control techniques at the higher levels of the system. The work presented in this paper evaluates the thermal response of the mobile system components related to the running software applications.