Exhausting battery statistics: Understanding the energy demands on mobile handsets

Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez*, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Andrew Rice

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Despite the advances in battery technologies, mobile phones still suffer from severe energy limitations. Modern handsets are rich devices that can support multitasking thanks to their high processing power and provide a wide range of resources such as sensors and network interfaces with different energy demands. There have been multiple attempts to characterise those energy demands; both to save or to allocate energy to the applications on the handset. However, there is still little understanding on how the interdependencies between resources (interdependencies caused by the applications and users' behaviour) affect the battery life. In this paper, we demonstrate the necessity of considering all those dynamics in order to characterise the energy demands of the system accurately. These results indicate that simple algorithmic and rule-based scheduling techniques [7] are not the most appropriate way of managing the resources since their usage can be affected by contextual factors, making necessary to find customised solutions that consider each user's behaviour and handset features.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010
Pages9-14
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010 - New Delhi, India
Duration: 30 Aug 201030 Aug 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010

Conference

Conference2010 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityNew Delhi
Period30/08/1030/08/10

Keywords

  • resources demand
  • smartphone usage
  • user behaviour

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