Energy-Awareness in Distributed Java-Based Software Systems

Distributed Java-based software systems are increasingly deployed onto heterogeneous mobile platforms with limited battery resources. In this domain, it is a crucial issue to preserve the energy resource and prolong the system´s lifetime. To address this problem, we first suggest a framework that allows the system engineer to estimate the energy consumption of a distributed Java-based software system both during system construction-time and during runtime. Based on our energy estimation framework, we then present two efficient approaches for reducing the software system´s energy consumption and consequently increasing the system´s lifetime. Finally, we discuss our strategy for evaluating our estimation framework and energy saving approaches