From ffa568d23fa728eac0444c54bfb8a9a5778aaa5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geoffrey Challen Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:48:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] New. --- figures/tables/tableALL.tex | 4 ++-- results.tex | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/figures/tables/tableALL.tex b/figures/tables/tableALL.tex index e29282b..3555905 100644 --- a/figures/tables/tableALL.tex +++ b/figures/tables/tableALL.tex @@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ \end{tabularx} } -\label{table-content} - \caption{\small \textbf{Apps sorted by content energy efficiency.}} + +\label{table-content} \end{subtable} \caption{\small \textbf{Evaluating Components of a Value Measure.} diff --git a/results.tex b/results.tex index dd52e5b..1d62119 100644 --- a/results.tex +++ b/results.tex @@ -82,6 +82,31 @@ looked better when their foreground usage was considered. \subsection{Content Energy Efficiency} +Finally, we the data we collected by instrumenting the +\texttt{SurfaceFlinger} and \texttt{AudioFlinger} components to compute a +simple measure of content delivery. We measure the audio and video frame +rates and combine them into a single measure by using bitrates corresponding +to a 30~fps YouTube-encoded video and 128~kbps two-channel audio, with the +weights representing the fact that a single frame of video contains much more +content than a single sample of audio. We use this combined metric as the +value measure and again use it to weight the energy consumption of each app, +with the results shown in Table~\ref{table-content}. + +Comparing with the foreground energy efficiency again shows several +interesting changes. Yahoo Mail, which foreground energy efficiency marked as +inefficiency, looks more efficient when content delivery is considered. While +it is possible that one \PhoneLab{} participant uses it to read email very +quickly, it may be more likely that it uses a ``spinner'' or other fancy UI +elements that generate artificially high frame rates without delivering much +information. The inability to distinguish between meaningless and meaningful +video frame content is a significant weakness of this simple approach. +YouTube and Candy Crush Saga both earn high marks, which is encouraging given +that they are very different apps but also might be a result of overweighting +screen refreshes. The Android Clock is also an unsurprising result, as it +requires almost no energy to generate a relatively-large number of screen +redraws. + +\subsection{Survey Results and Discussion} \begin{figure*}[t] \centering -- libgit2 0.22.2