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Performance-based Guidelines for Energy Efficient Mobile Applications
🏆 Most Influential Paper Award 2023
Authors: Luís Cruz and Rui Abreu
Published in: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MobileSoft 2017.
Abstract: Mobile and wearable devices are nowadays the de facto personal computers, while desktop computers are becoming less popular. Therefore, it is important for companies to deliver efficient mobile applications. As an example, Google has published a set of best practices to optimize the performance of Android applications. However, these guidelines fall short to address energy consumption. As mobile software applications operate in resource-constrained environments, guidelines to build energy efficient applications are of utmost importance. In this paper, we studied whether or not a set of best performance-based practices have an impact on the energy consumed by Android applications. In an experimental study with six popular mobile applications, we observed that the battery of the mobile device can last up to approximately an extra hour if the applications are developed with energy-aware practices. This work paves the way for a set of guidelines for energy-aware automatic refactoring techniques.
Bibtex (copy):@INPROCEEDINGS{cruz2017performance, author={Cruz, Luis and Abreu, Rui}, booktitle={2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)}, title={Performance-Based Guidelines for Energy Efficient Mobile Applications}, year={2017}, volume={}, number={}, pages={46-57}, doi={10.1109/MOBILESoft.2017.19}}