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Research Article

A Power Optimized Method for Mode Switching in Android Systems

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.9-10-2017.159797,
        author={Bo Chen and Xiaofan Shen},
        title={A Power Optimized Method for Mode Switching in Android Systems},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing},
        volume={4},
        number={13},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={CC},
        year={2019},
        month={8},
        keywords={Android, Power Save Mode, Suspend/Resume Mode},
        doi={10.4108/eai.9-10-2017.159797}
    }
    
  • Bo Chen
    Xiaofan Shen
    Year: 2019
    A Power Optimized Method for Mode Switching in Android Systems
    CC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-10-2017.159797
Bo Chen1,*, Xiaofan Shen2
  • 1: School of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui
  • 2: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(XJTLU), Suzhou, Jiangsu
*Contact email: chenbo2008@ustc.edu.cn

Abstract

How the Suspend/Resume mechanism of smartphone influences the power consumption is examined in the dissertation. Specifically, various unimportant and not so urgent network packets keep awakening the operating system (OS) at the time it is under suspend mode, and switch it from suspend to resume mode continually, which results in more power consumption. Accordingly, an innovative optimization technique was suggested in this paper in order that the awakening of OS can be postponed and the lasting hour of suspend mode can be lengthened to decrease power consumption. Some experiments are also carried out, with the result data suggesting that such technique is an effective way to reduce power consumption by greater than 7.63%. It proves that this technique is workable.