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Evaluating Power Consumption and Real-time Performance of Android CPU Governors

안드로이드 CPU 거버너의 전력 소비 및 실시간 성능 평가

  • Tak, Sungwoo (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2016.07.18
  • Accepted : 2016.08.04
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

Android CPU governors exploit the DVFS (Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling) technique. The DVFS is a power management technique where the CPU operating frequency is decreased to allow a corresponding reduction in the CPU supply voltage. The power consumed by a CPU is approximately proportional to the square of the CPU supply voltage. Therefore, lower CPU operating frequency allows the CPU supply voltage to be lowered. This helps to reduce the CPU power consumption. However, lower CPU operating frequency increases a task's execution time. Such an increase in the task's execution time makes the task's response time longer and makes the task's deadline miss occur. This finally leads to degrading the quality of service provided by the task. In this paper, we evaluated the performance of Android CPU governors in terms of the power consumption, tasks's response time and deadline miss ratio.

안드로이드 CPU 거버너는 CPU 주파수를 낮추어 CPU 공급 전압을 감소시키는 DVFS (Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling) 기반 전력 관리 기법을 사용한다. 그러나 CPU 주파수의 감소는 태스크의 실행 속도 지연을 유발한다. 이로 인해 태스크의 응답 시간 및 마감 시한 초과율이 증가하여 태스크가 제공하는 서비스의 품질 하락이 발생한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다양한 안드로이드 CPU 거버너들을 전력 소비와 태스크의 응답성 및 마감 시한 측면에서 분석하였다.

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