SYNCROD: AN ENERGY-MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS ON MOBILE DEVICES

Zach Rattner, Hamilton Turner, Danny Guymon, Brian Dougherty, Jules White, Sean Eade

2012

Abstract

As mobile computing platforms become ubiquitous, the need to keep data synchronized between multiple devices becomes increasingly common. However, mobile devices have limited battery capacity, and file synchronization requires extensive use of power-hungry network interfaces. This paper introduces Syncrod, an approach for optimizing file synchronization algorithm parameters in order to minimize total energy consumption. This paper presents a formal model for describing mobile file synchronization energy consumption, and an example of fitting a general file synchronization algorithm to the provided model. Empirical results of running an energy optimization on a general file synchronization algorithm are shown to provide rapid file transfer while using near 0.003% of a standard smartphone battery energy per MB. The provided approach can be used to find the the most energy-efficient parameters for any file synchronization algorithm that can be fit into the provided formal model.

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Rattner Z., Turner H., Guymon D., Dougherty B., White J. and Eade S. (2012). SYNCROD: AN ENERGY-MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS ON MOBILE DEVICES . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 135-141. DOI: 10.5220/0003822601350141


in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs12,
author={Zach Rattner and Hamilton Turner and Danny Guymon and Brian Dougherty and Jules White and Sean Eade},
title={SYNCROD: AN ENERGY-MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS ON MOBILE DEVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={135-141},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003822601350141},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - SYNCROD: AN ENERGY-MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS ON MOBILE DEVICES
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Rattner Z.
AU - Turner H.
AU - Guymon D.
AU - Dougherty B.
AU - White J.
AU - Eade S.
PY - 2012
SP - 135
EP - 141
DO - 10.5220/0003822601350141