New Interfaces for Achieving Power Agility on Mobile Devices (Poster)
Guru Prasad Srinivasa, Rizwana Begum (Drexel University),
Scott Haseley, Mark Hempstead (Tufts University),
and Geoffrey Challen
Abstract
As mobile devices become increasingly complex power management requires communication across multiple layers of the system. Future systems with complex interactions will require interfaces that allow performance-and-energy information to be communicated between hardware and the operating system. We present a plan for interfaces between the application, OS, and hardware. We introduce the concept of inefficiency which can be used to encapsulate the priorities between tasks.