Design and implementation of a critical speed-based DVFS mechanism for the Android operating system

2010 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing, EMC-10 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liang, Wen Yew ^a   Lai, Po Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Android; Embedded systems; Energy aware design

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; CRITICAL SPEED; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY-AWARE DESIGN; ENERGY-SAVING TECHNIQUES; MEMORY ACCESS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PROGRAM EXECUTION; REAL APPLICATIONS; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; ROBOTS; SPEED;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958102435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMC.2010.5575733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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