PICSEL: Measuring user-perceived performance to control dynamic frequency scaling

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 70-79

  Mallik, Arindam ^a   Cosgrove, Jack ^a   Dick, Robert P ^a   Memik, Gokhan ^a   Dinda, Peter ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; Power management; Thermal emergency; User perceived performance

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY SCALING (DVFS); POWER MANAGEMENT; USER-PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONTROL;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77957764563     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346281.1346291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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