• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.259-269
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• 2013

Android has become the most popular platform for mobile devices. However, Android still has critical performance issues, such as "application not responding" errors and hiccups resulting from garbage collection. Many phone vendors have tried to resolve the problems by characterizing and improving the performance. However, there are few insightful performance analysis tools for the Android-based systems. This paper presents AndroScope, which is a performance analysis tool for both the Android platform (Dalvik virtual machine, core libraries, Android libraries, and even Linux kernels) and its applications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first tool to collect and analyze performance data from all the software layers of the Android-based systems. AndroScope offers a trace mechanism to collect such deep and wide performance data as hardware performance counters, time, and memory usage. In addition, the tool includes TraceBridge, which is a middleware for the fast handling of mass logs. Moreover, AndroScope offers an integrated graphical user interface with the Android software development kit to display a great volume of the detailed performance data.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.151-154
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• 2014

An energy of applications had consumed through the complexed inter-action with operating systems, run-time environments, compiler, and applications on various mobile devices. In these days, challenged researches are studying to reduce of energy consumptions that uses energy-oriented high-level and low-level compiler techniques on mobile devices. In this paper, we intented to reduce an energy consumption of Java mobile applications that applied a list instruction scheduling for energy dissipation from dalvik bytecode which extracted Android dex files. Through this works, we can construct the optimized power and energy environment on mobile devices with the limited power supply.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.524-527
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• 2011

자바는 프로그램의 신뢰성을 높인 언어의 특성상, 객체에 접근하는 명령어 마다 객체가 실제로 할당되었는지 되지 않았는지 확인하기 위하여 해당 객체가 널인지 아닌지 확인하는 널 포인터 검사를 수행한다. 모든 객체 접근마다 널 여부를 검사하는 것은 프로그램 상으로도 많은 overhead가 된다. 이 논문에서는 안드로이드의 자바 가상 머신인 달빅 가상 머신 상에서 필요 없는 널 포인터 검사를 제거함으로써 가상 머신의 성능 향상을 꾀하였다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.551-557
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a stack allocation technique of Android Java objects in order to reduce the number of garbage collection which is one of major reason on Android performance degradation when running applications. The proposed technique is to allocate Java objects into stack rather than heap memory. To do so, stacked objects could escape the garbage collection process. We experiment the proposed technique in the latest Android 2.3 version. For the simulation, we take advantage of the well known Java benchmark, Caffeinemark, and our own. The result shows the performance degradation of Dalvik Virtual Machine execution time caused by the stack allocation of Java objects is very slight and the proposed method considerably reduces the frequency of garbage collection. This will increase application performance and give better user interfaces to Android phone users.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.61-62
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• 2013

안드로이드 스마트폰 사용자에게 응답성은 중요한 성능 이슈이다. 스마트폰 응용 구동 시 응답성에 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 수많은 페이지 부재 처리기의 수행 시간이다. 선사상 기법은 페이지 부재 발생을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있는 기법이지만, 선사상할 페이지를 예측하기 어렵기 때문에 기존 안드로이드 스마트폰에서는 요구 사상 기법이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문은 응답성 향상을 위해 커널이 안드로이드 런타임과 라이브러리의 도움을 받아 선사상할 페이지를 예측하는 선사상 기법을 제안한다. 실험 결과 제안된 기법은 기존 시스템에 비해 웹 브라우저 응용의 응답 시간을 최대 3.25% 단축할 수 있었다.