[TC] Stabilizing CPU Frequency and Voltage for Temperature-aware DVFS …

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Jae Min Kim, Young Geun Kim, and Sung Woo Chung, "Stabilizing CPU Frequency and Voltage for Temperature-aware DVFS in Mobile Devices", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 286-292, January 2015.

 

 

Abstract

Recent mobile devices adopt high-performance processors to support various functions. As a side effect, higher performance inevitably leads to power density increase, eventually resulting in thermal problems. In order to alleviate the thermal problems, off-the-shelf mobile devices rely on dynamic voltage-frequency scaling (DVFS)-based dynamic thermal management (DTM) schemes. Unfortunately, in the DVFS-based DTM schemes, an excessive number of DTM operations worsen not only performance but also power efficiency. In this paper, we propose a temperature-aware DVFS scheme for Android-based mobile devices to optimize power or performance depending on the option. We evaluate our scheme in the off-the-shelf mobile device. Our evaluation results show that our scheme saves energy consumption by 12.7%, on average, when we use the power optimizing option. Our scheme also enhances the performance by 6.3%, on average, by using the performance optimizing scheme, still reducing the energy consumption by 6.7%.

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