A Review on mobile application energy profiling: Taxonomy, state-of-the-art, and open research issues

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-59

  Ahmad, Raja Wasim ^a   Gani, Abdullah ^a   Hamid, Siti Hafizah Ab ^a   Xia, Feng ^b   Shiraz, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Context aware; Energy estimation; Energy profiling; Rich mobile applications

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

APPLICATION EXECUTION; CONTEXT-AWARE; ENERGY ESTIMATION; ENERGY PROFILING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MODELING FLEXIBILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84943747521     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.09.002     Document Type: Review

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