• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.177-184
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• 2015

This paper proposes a minimum-power scheduling scheme of real-time parallel tasks while meeting deadlines of the real-time tasks on DVFS-enabled multicore processors. The proposed scheme first finds a floating number of processing cores to each task so that the computation load of all processing cores would be equalized. Next the scheme translates the found floating number of cores into a natural number of cores while maintaining the computation load of all cores unchanged, and allocates the translated natural number of cores to the execution of each task. The scheme is designed to minimize the power consumption of the frequency-sharing multicore processor operating with the same processing speed at an instant time. Evaluation shows that the scheme saves up to 38% power consumption of the previous method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.5168-5181
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• 2017

The popularity of augmented reality (AR) applications and games are in high demand. Currently, the best common platform to implement AR services is on a smartphone, as online games, navigators, personal assistants, travel guides are among the most popular applications of smartphones. However, the power consumption of an AR application is extremely high, and therefore, highly adaptable and dynamic low power control schemes must be used. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) schemes are widely used in smartphones to minimize the energy consumption by controlling the device's operational frequency and voltage. DVFS schemes can sometimes lead to longer response times, which can result in a significant problem for AR applications. In this paper, an AR response time monitor is used to observe the time interval between the AR image input and device's reaction time, in order to enable improved operational frequency and AR application process priority control. Based on the proposed response time monitor and the characteristics of the Linux kernel's completely fair scheduler (CFS) (which is the default scheduler of Android based smartphones), a response time step control (RSC) scheme is proposed which adaptively adjusts the CPU frequency and interactive application's priority. The experimental results show that RSC can reduce the energy consumption up to 10.41% compared to the ondemand governor while reliably satisfying the response time performance limit of interactive applications on a smartphone.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1623-1628
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• 2015

As the performance of mobile devices has increased, high-end multicore CPUs have become the norm in smartphones. However, such high performance devices are exposed to the problem of battery depletion due to the energy consumption caused by software performance, and despite increases in battery capacity. The required resources are dynamic and varied, and further user interaction is highly random; thus, Linux-based power management such as DVFS is needed to fulfill requirements. In order to reduce power consumption, we propose a method to restrict the CPU frequency of data download while maintaining user reactivity. This can supplement the weakness of existing Linux-based power management techniques like DVFS in relation to webpage loading. Through the implementation of our method at the application level, we confirm that energy consumption from webpage loading is reduced.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.658-665
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• 2006

In these days, the demand of users to extend available period of mobile systems is increased according as the functions of mobile systems have been varied and the use of multimedia application has been increased. This paper proposes an integrated power management framework that considers executed workload types for effective energy management. The conventional methods use DVFS technique for CPU and DPM technique for WNIC separately or simply combine them based on the assumption that they are orthogonal one another. However, the proposed mechanism determines the kind of workload under analysis of the characteristics of workloads incoming through a WNIC. The proposed method can reduce energy consumption of system level effectively by controlling CPU and WNIC to proper power mode based on analyzed characteristics of workload. The experimental result shows the proposed method reduces energy consumption by 9% for BE (Best Effort) workload, CBR (Constant Bit Rate) workload, and Interactive workload on average and by 16% to maximum when compared with the conventional methods which simply combine DVFS technique for CPU and DPM technique for WNIC.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.566-572
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• 2015

We proposed a novel energy optimization technique for smartphone GPUs, more aggressively lowering the GPU frequency while obtaining higher energy efficiency with a negligible negative impact on the GPU performance. In order to achieve the Quality of Service (QoS) specified by the smartphone application, the proposed optimization technique employed the minimal acceptable GPU frequency based on average Frames per Second (FPS) for each GPU frequency level. Our experimental results on a smartphone development board showed that the proposed technique can reduce the GPU energy consumption by up to 23% over the default DVFS algorithm with only a 0.45 frame drop.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.10-14
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• 2013

In this paper, when applying current-mode circuit design technique showing constant power dissipation none the less operation frequency, to the low power design of dynamic voltage frequency scaling, we introduce the low power current-mode circuit design technique applying MOSFET in sub-threshold region, in order to solve the problem that has large power dissipation especially on the condition of low operating frequency. BSIM 3, was used as a MOSFET model in circuit simulation. From the simulation result, the power dissipation of the current memory circuit with sub-threshold MOSFET showed $18.98{\mu}W$, which means the consumption reduction effect of 98%, compared with $900{\mu}W$ in that with strong inversion. It is confirmed that the proposed circuit design technique will be available in DVFS using a current-mode circuit design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.208-210
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• 2006

프로세서의 온도를 낮추기 위한 컴퓨터 과학적 접근법으로는 가변전압주파수조절(DVFS), 파이프라인에서 더 이상 명령어를 수행하지 못하게 하는 방법(pipeline throttling) 등이 있다. 하지만, 이러한 해결책은 대부분 소수의 은도 센서가 내장되어 있어 이를 기반으로 온도를 제어하였다. 본 논문에서는 실제 Pentium 4에 기반한 시스템을 통하여, 운영체제 레벨의 가변주파수방법(DFS)을 이용한 스케줄링이 여러 개의 온도센서를 사용하여 국지화된 뜨거운 부분(localized hotspot)을 얼마나 효율적으로 온도를 제어할 수 있는지를 보여준다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1289-1298
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• 2016

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.604-609
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• 2014

Decoding processes in portable media players have a high computational cost, resulting in high power consumption by the CPU. If decoding computations are reduced, the power consumed by the CPU is also be reduced, but such a choice generally results in a degradation of the video quality for the users, so it is essential to address this tradeoff. We proposed a new CPU power management scheme that can make use of the scalability property available in the H.164/SVC standard. We first proposed a new video quality model that makes use of a video quality metric(VQM) in order to efficiently take into account the different quantization factors in the SVC. We then propose a new dynamic voltage scaling(DVS) scheme that can selectively combine the previous decoding times and frame sizes in order to accurately predict the next decoding time. We then implemented a scheme on a commercial smartphone and performed a user test in order to examine how users react to the VQM difference. Real measurements show that the proposed scheme uses up to 34% fewer energy than the Linux DVFS governor, and user tests confirm that the degradation in the quality is quite tolerable.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.137-147
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• 2008

Recently, Power and thermal management are becoming major concerns in computer system design. The energy efficiency is an important attribute of the mobile and embedded systems. Today's powerful mobile processors needs more energy and longer battery life. Many research has been focused to reduce energy consumption for the mobile processors.In this paper, performance monitoring system for the Power-management techniques is implemented for Intel's XScale microarchitecture-based Marvell PXA320 processor on Windows CE platform. It also provides software interface for changing DVFS configuration. Performance and power consumption are measured for benchmark programs through performance counter value and voltage/current measurements on LabVIEW platform. By using the developed monitoring system, it is possible for dynamic power management to track processor's workload and to determine the actual power consumption.