Stabilizing CPU frequency and voltage for temperature-aware DVFS in mobile devices

JM Kim, YG Kim, SW Chung - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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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 …
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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