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The energy/frequency convexity rule: Modeling and experimental validation on mobile devices

  • Karel De Vogeleer
  • , Gerard Memmi
  • , Pierre Jouvelot
  • , Fabien Coelho
  • CNRS LTCI
  • Mines ParisTech

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Abstract

This paper provides both theoretical and experimental evidence for the existence of an Energy/Frequency Convexity Rule, which relates energy consumption and CPU frequency on mobile devices. We monitored a typical smartphone running a specific computing-intensive kernel of multiple nested loops written in C using a high-resolution power gauge. Data gathered during a week-long acquisition campaign suggest that energy consumed per input element is strongly correlated with CPU frequency, and, more interestingly, the curve exhibits a clear minimum over a 0.2 GHz to 1.6 GHz window. We provide and motivate an analytical model for this behavior, which fits well with the data. Our work should be of clear interest to researchers focusing on energy usage and minimization for mobile devices, and provide new insights for optimization opportunities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)793-803
Number of pages11
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8384 LNCS
Issue numberPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2013 - Warsaw, Poland
Duration: 8 Sept 201311 Sept 2013

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • Bit-reverse algorithm
  • DVFS
  • Energy consumption and modeling
  • Execution time modeling
  • Power consumption
  • Smartphone

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