Energy management in mobile devices with the cinder operating system

Roy, Arjun; Rumble, Stephen M.; Stutsman, Ryan; Levis, Philip; Mazières, David; Zeldovich, Nickolai

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Conference Paper

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Roy, Arjun
Rumble, Stephen M.
Stutsman, Ryan
Levis, Philip
Mazières, David
Zeldovich, Nickolai

Date

2011

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Abstract

We argue that controlling energy allocation is an increasingly useful and important feature for operating systems, especially on mobile devices. We present two new low-level abstractions in the Cinder operating system, reserves and taps, which store and distribute energy for application use. We identify three key properties of control - isolation, delegation, and subdivision - and show how using these abstractions can achieve them. We also show how the architecture of the HiStar information-flow control kernel lends itself well to energy control. We prototype and evaluate Cinder on a popular smartphone, the Android G1. Copyright © 2011 ACM.

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Roy A, Rumble SM, Stutsman R, Levis P, Mazières D, et al. (2011) Energy management in mobile devices with the cinder operating system. Proceedings of the sixth conference on Computer systems - EuroSys ’11. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1966445.1966459.

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We thank John Ousterhout, the anonymous reviewers, andour shepherd, Liuba Shrira, for their feedback. This workwas supported by generous gifts from DoCoMo Capital,the National Science Foundation under grants #0831163,#0846014, and #0832820 POMI (Programmable Open MobileInternet) 2020 Expedition Grant, the King AbdullahUniversity of Science and Technology (KAUST), MicrosoftResearch, T-Mobile, NSF Cybertrust award CNS-0716806,and an NSERC Post Graduate Scholarship. This researchwas performed under an appointment to the U.S. Departmentof Homeland Security (DHS) Scholarship and FellowshipProgram, administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Scienceand Education (ORISE) through an interagency agreementbetween the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) andDHS. ORISE is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities(ORAU) under DOE contract number DE-AC05-06OR23100. All opinions expressed in this paper are the authors’and do not necessarily reflect the policies and viewsof DHS, DOE, or ORAU/ORISE.