Energy-Aware Technology-Based DVFS Mechanism for the Android Operating System

Author

Silva-Filho, A.G. ; Bezerra, P.T.L. ; Silva, Fabio Q. B. ; Junior, A.L.O.C. ; Santos, Andre L. M. ; Costa, P.H.R. ; Miranda, R.C.G.

Author_Institution

Inf. Center (CIn), Fed. Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

184

Lastpage

187

Abstract

DVFS is an efficient energy saving technique for processors during program execution time. In this paper, we will focus efforts on 3G and Wi-Fi technologies to evaluate the impact of energy consumption when combined with DVFS mechanism based on the Android operating system. An experimental infrastructure with basis on Samsung´s Smartphone was used to evaluate the proposed strategy to reduce energy consumption. Results of the proposed approach was compared with nonoptimized approach and an average reduction about 30% in terms of energy consumption was obtained when compared with performance mode.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobile computing; operating systems (computers); power aware computing; smart phones; wireless LAN; 3G; Android operating system; Samsung smartphone; Wi-Fi technologies; energy consumption; energy saving technique; energy-aware technology-based DVFS mechanism; nonoptimized approach; program execution time; Androids; Dynamic voltage scaling; Electronic mail; Energy consumption; Humanoid robots; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Operating systems; Android; DVFS; Embedded Systems; Energy-aware Design; Operating System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing System Engineering (SBESC), 2012 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Natal

ISSN

2324-7886

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5747-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBESC.2012.43

Filename

6473659