ARM Multimedia data retrieval in low power mobile disk drive

저전력 모바일 드라이브에서의 멀티미디어 데이터 재생

  • Park, Jung-Wan (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering Hanyang University) ;
  • Won, You-Jip (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering Hanyang University)
  • Published : 2002.04.01

Abstract

In this work, we present the novel scheduling algorithm of the multimedia data retrieval for the mobile disk drive. Our algorithm is focused on minimizing the power consumption involved in data retrieval from the local disk drive. The prime commodity in mobile devices is the electricity. Strict restriction on power consumption requirement of the mobile device put unique demand in designing of its hardware and software components. State of the art disk based storage subsystem becomes small enough to be embedded in handhold devices. It delivers abundant storage capacity and portability. However, it is never be trivial to integrate small hard disk or optical disk drive in handhold devices due to its excessive power consumption. Our algorithm ARM in this article generates the optimal schedule of retrieving data blocks from the mobile disk drive while guaranteeing continuous playback of multimedia data.

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