With an ever-increasing number of applications available for mobile devices, battery life is becoming a critical factor in user satisfaction. This practical guide provides you with the key measurement, modeling, and analytical tools needed to optimize battery life by developing energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications. As well as the necessary theoretical background and results of the field, this hands-on book also provides real-world examples, practical guidance on assessing and optimizing energy consumption, and details of prototypes and possible future trends. Uniquely, you will learn about energy optimization of both hardware and software in one book, enabling you to get the most from the available battery power. Covering experimental system design and implementation, the book supports assignment-based courses with a laboratory component, making it an ideal textbook for graduate students. It is also a perfect guidebook for software engineers and systems architects working in industry.
- Includes the key tools and practical guidance needed to develop energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications
- Considers energy optimization of both hardware and software
- Provides details of theoretical techniques and prototypes that will be used in the future
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'Energy is a vital resource for mobile computing. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of energy from the viewpoint of battery-powered mobile devices. A broad range of topics is covered, and each topic is discussed in depth. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and mobile system engineers.' Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University

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17th Oct 2024 by UName-267437
Nice text book on understanding of energy hogs on Smartphone platform. Power modeling and Optimizations covered in detail. Book encompasses thorough Literature survey and future research directions on important problem area of all portable battery powered devices. Advanced energy optimization techniques like multiple WNIs are also discussed. __Narendra Shukla, Shiv Nadar University.

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Product details
- Date Published: August 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107042339
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 178 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.76kg
- contains: 99 b/w illus. 47 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Understanding Energy Consumption:
1. Introduction
2. Energy and power primer
3. Smartphone batteries
4. Energy measurement
5. On human behavior and energy efficiency
Part II. Energy Management and Conservation:
6. Overview
7. Smartphone subsystems
8. Mobile operating systems
9. Power modeling
10. Power profilers
Part III. Advanced Energy Optimization:
11. Overview
12. Traffic scheduling
13. Exploiting multiple wireless network interfaces
14. Mobile cloud offloading
15. Example scenarios for energy optimization
16. Future trends
Appendix A. An energy profile application.
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Authors
Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki
Sasu Tarkoma is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has worked in the IT industry as a consultant and chief system architect as well as principal researcher and laboratory expert at Nokia Research Center. His interests include mobile computing, Internet technologies and middleware.
Matti Siekkinen, Aalto University, Finland
Matti Siekkinen is a teaching research scientist at Aalto University, Finland. He has co-authored over 40 scientific publications and his research interests include energy efficiency of mobile devices, network measurements and protocols.
Eemil Lagerspetz, University of Helsinki
Eemil Lagerspetz is a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include mobile energy awareness, data analysis and cloud computing. He has published many scientific articles on mobile energy efficiency.
Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland
Yu Xiao is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aalto University. Her research interests include energy-efficient wireless networking, mobile cloud computing and mobile crowd-sensing.