Energy management in mobile devices with the cinder operating system

We argue that controlling energy allocation is an increasingly useful and important feature for operating systems, especially on mobile devices. We present two new low-level ions in the Cinder operating system, reserves and taps, which store and distribute energy for application use. We identify three key properties of control – isolation, delegation, and subdivision – and show how using these abstractions can achieve them. We also show how the architecture of the HiStar information-flow control kernel lends itself well to energy control. We prototype and evaluate Cinder on a

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: EUROSYS
• Authors: Arjun Roy, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Philip Levis, David Mazières, Nickolai Zeldovich
• Keywords: Energy Allocation, EUROSYS 2011, Key Properties, Software Engineering, System Reserves