Smartphone Energy Consumption: Modeling and Optimization

EAN: 9781107042339
Published: 07/08/2014
Language: English

With an ever-increasing number of applications available for mobile devices, battery life is becoming a critical factor in user satisfaction. This practical guide provides you with the key measurement, modeling, and analytical tools needed to optimize battery life by developing energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications. As well as the necessary theoretical background and results of the field, this hands-on book also provides real-world examples, practical guidance on assessing and optimizing energy consumption, and details of prototypes and possible future trends. Uniquely, you will learn about energy optimization of both hardware and software in one book, enabling you to get the most from the available battery power. Covering experimental system design and implementation, the book supports assignment-based courses with a laboratory component, making it an ideal textbook for graduate students. It is also a perfect guidebook for software engineers and systems architects working in industry.

Part I. Understanding Energy Consumption
1. Introduction
2. Energy and power primer
3. Smartphone batteries
4. Energy measurement
5. On human behavior and energy efficiency
Part II. Energy Management and Conservation
6. Overview
7. Smartphone subsystems
8. Mobile operating systems
9. Power modeling
10. Power profilers
Part III. Advanced Energy Optimization
11. Overview
12. Traffic scheduling
13. Exploiting multiple wireless network interfaces
14. Mobile cloud offloading
15. Example scenarios for energy optimization
16. Future trends
Appendix A. An energy profile application.