A Fast-Boot Method for Embedded Mobile Linux: Toward a Single-Digit User Sensed Boot Time for Full-Featured Commercial Phones

Author

Fuji, Daisuke ; Yamakami, Toshihiko ; Ishiguro, Kunihiro

Author_Institution

CTO Office, ACCESS, Chiba, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

22-25 March 2011

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

Software on mobile devices has become increasingly complicated as end users demand a PC-converged user experience on the mobile Internet. This has complicated the software configuration and boot procedures, resulting in a longer boot time. This is damaging to the mobile user experience. Many legacy techniques to enable the fast boot time differentiation in mobile handsets are not applicable to the today´s advanced handsets, which are capable of handling rich multimedia applications. The authors propose a fast boot method for embedded mobile Linux, that is suitable for mobile handsets. They evaluate the proposed method in a prototype for a commercial handset and show positive results in a single-digit user sensed boot time.

Keywords

Linux; computer bootstrapping; embedded systems; mobile computing; mobile handsets; multimedia computing; software maintenance; PC converged user experience; embedded mobile Linux; fast boot method; full featured commercial phones; legacy techniques; mobile Internet; mobile devices; multimedia applications; single digit user sensed boot time; Batteries; Linux; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Random access memory; Software; embedded softawre; fast boot; mobile Linux;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications (WAINA), 2011 IEEE Workshops of International Conference on

Conference_Location

Biopolis

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4338-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2011.126

Filename

5763442