What is keeping my phone awake? Characterizing and detecting no-sleep energy bugs in smartphone apps

MobiSys'12 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 267-280

  Pathak, Abhinav ^a   Jindal, Abhilash ^a   Hu, Y Charlie ^a   Midkiff, Samuel P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy; energy bug; mobile; nosleep bug; smartphones

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; BATTERY DRAINAGE; BATTERY LIFE; BUG CHARACTERISTICS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CRITICAL RESOURCES; DATAFLOW; ENERGY; ENERGY-BUG; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MOBILE; NOSLEEP-BUG; PARADIGM SHIFTS; POWER MANAGEMENTS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; POWER CONTROL; SIGNAL ENCODING; SLEEP RESEARCH; SMARTPHONES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84864366834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2307636.2307661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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