Description
Book SynopsisWith 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
Trade Review'Energy is a vital resource for mobile computing. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of energy from the viewpoint of battery-powered mobile devices. A broad range of topics is covered, and each topic is discussed in depth. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and mobile system engineers.' Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
Table of ContentsPart 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.
