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Energy Efficient Mobile Operating Systems: Muhammad Waseem

The document discusses energy efficient mobile operating systems. It describes how operating system developers are focusing on increasing battery life by managing energy usage more efficiently at the operating system level. The paper reviews some commonly used mobile operating systems like Android and Symbian and how they approach power management. It also summarizes recent techniques used by mobile operating systems to reduce device power consumption, such as accounting for energy usage of different hardware components and using aggressive pre-fetching and delayed requests to optimize disk access.

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Energy Efficient Mobile Operating Systems: Muhammad Waseem

The document discusses energy efficient mobile operating systems. It describes how operating system developers are focusing on increasing battery life by managing energy usage more efficiently at the operating system level. The paper reviews some commonly used mobile operating systems like Android and Symbian and how they approach power management. It also summarizes recent techniques used by mobile operating systems to reduce device power consumption, such as accounting for energy usage of different hardware components and using aggressive pre-fetching and delayed requests to optimize disk access.

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Int. J.

Advanced Networking and Applications


Volume: 05 Issue: 01 Pages:1812-1817 (2013) ISSN : 0975-0290

1812

Energy Efficient Mobile Operating Systems


Muhammad Waseem
Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt
Email: muhammad.wasim1@gmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------------------------Energy is an important resource in mobile computers now days. It is important to manage energy in efficient manner so
that energy consumption will be reduced. Developers of operating system decided to increase the battery life time of
mobile phones at operating system level. So, design of energy efficient mobile operating system is the best way to reduce
the energy consumption in mobile devices. In this paper, currently used energy efficient mobile operating system is
discussed and compared. Recent energy efficient techniques used to reduce the power consumption of mobile devices will
also be summarized and discussed.
Keywords Android, Battery life, Energy awareness, Mobile, Power management, Symbian
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: July 10, 2013
Date of Acceptance : August 30, 2013
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1. INTRODUCTION

Rresource management is one of the essential tasks of


operating system. Operating system must able to manage
resources in an efficient manner. The correct and complete
knowledge of each and every task running inside the
computer system is mandatory to fulfill the demands of
resources from various processes and I/O devices [1].
Now days, mobile devices are become common, and one
of the major resource in these devices is its power or
energy. So, efficient management of power of mobile
devices is still a research problem. Since the role of power
in any operating system is restricted to two main tasks, i.e.,
control the hardware power requirement, and increase the
lifetime of battery [2].
Mobile operating systems are just started with the advent
of mobile phones and smart phones in the market. Some of
the mostly used mobile operating systems are, i.e.,
Symbian,
Android,
Microsoft
Window Mobile
OS,Blackberry OS, and Linux mobile OS. These and many
other monile OS can be installed on any device having
updates as well [3].
Resources are playing an important role in the
performance of mobile operating system. Many mobile
operating systems manage their resources, i.e., battery,
GPU, Memory, Storage etc [4]. Power consume by mobile
functions is one of the most important resource for mobile
devices because these devices are known as power hungry
devices. Symbian OS used a distributed method with each
layer is responsible to handle mobile power. Android says
that CPU cant consume power if there is no application
consuming power [5].
Energy management in mobile phones is the responsibility
of both applications and operating systems. Operating
systems main component, i.e., resource manager will
handle it with the collaboration with hardware. One of
main thing is to understand how much resources are

demanded by user at the given time in order to manage


them efficiently [6].
Some of the main responsibilities of power management
system in context of mobile operating system are, i.e.,
control the power requirement of hardware devices,
increase the life time of battery component is that device
can be used between recharges, and increase the users
perception of mobile phones operation [7],[8].
In this paper, several new approaches of mobile operating
system will be discussed; some of new power management
techniques in mobiles will also be discussed and evaluated.
In section II, some of recent mobile operating systems are
introduced, it will give an overview of power management
techniques, and finally section III will concludes the paper.

2. RELATED WORK
An energy efficient mobile device, i.e., smart phones is the
requirement of time. It is the main characteristic of any
mobile device now days. Operating system will reduce
energy consumption by knowing how many resources are
demanded by user, and by manage power of mobile
device, since it is essential to know the demands of user in
order to manage energy efficiently [9].
Heng Zeng [10] proposed a Currentcy model that manages
energy through energy accounting for various hardware
devices, and made fair allocation of energy to all of mobile
devices. They have used a linux version for mobile
devices, i.e., ECOSystem in order to support their model.
ECOSystem will incorporate their model and perform
energy management at operating system level. The main
purpose is to manage the battery lifetime of mobile device.
Results have shown that their system will reduce the power
consumption to 0.02W.
Athanasios E [11] analyzed the benefits of burstiness of
disk usage in order to disk power management policy more
energy efficient. They suggested using the aggressive prefetching and delay of low-priority requests to increase the

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