Managing Battery Lifetime with Energy-Aware Adaptation
Jason Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan
Abstract
We demonstrate that a collaborative relationship between the operating
system and applications can be used to meet user-specified goals for
battery duration. We first describe a novel profiling-based approach
for accurately measuring application and system energy consumption.
We then show how applications can dynamically modify their behavior to
conserve energy. We extend the Linux operating system to yield
battery lifetimes of user-specified duration. By monitoring energy
supply and demand and by maintaining a history of application energy
use, it can dynamically balance energy conservation and application
quality. Our evaluation shows that this approach can meet goals that
extend battery life by as much as 30%.