On Measuring Smartphones’ Software Energy Requirements

Hagen Höpfner, Maximilian Schirmer, Christian Bunse

2012

Abstract

The continuous technological evolution of smartphones regarding their performance, networking facilities, and memory capacity, as well as various sensors, leads to a significant increase of a device’s energy requirements. Hence, energy demand is one of the most limiting factors of battery-driven, mobile devices. Improving energy demand by software optimisation often relies on simulated energy demand data. This paper evaluates two approaches for actually measuring real energy data with the goal to build an efficient and cost-effective basis for future research. The main question underlying this paper is: Is the preciseness of energy data provided by a smartphone’s operating system reliably close to the preciseness of data obtained via classic (i.e., hardware-based) measurement approaches. We defined a case study to evaluate this question. Our evaluation results show that software-based energy measures have an acceptable preciseness for comparative measures and are thus sufficient for research that warrants or requires total values.

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in Harvard Style

Höpfner H., Schirmer M. and Bunse C. (2012). On Measuring Smartphones’ Software Energy Requirements . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 165-171. DOI: 10.5220/0004067601650171


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={Hagen Höpfner and Maximilian Schirmer and Christian Bunse},
title={On Measuring Smartphones’ Software Energy Requirements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={165-171},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004067601650171},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - On Measuring Smartphones’ Software Energy Requirements
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Höpfner H.
AU - Schirmer M.
AU - Bunse C.
PY - 2012
SP - 165
EP - 171
DO - 10.5220/0004067601650171