Title :
Energy efficiency of lossless data compression on a mobile device: An experimental evaluation
Author :
Dzhagaryan, Armen ; Milenkovic, Aleksandar ; Burtscher, Martin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Abstract :
Lossless compression and decompression are routinely used in mobile computing devices to reduce the costs of communicating and storing data. This paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of common compression utilities on Pandaboard, a development platform similar to current commercial mobile devices. We study the compression ratio, compression and decompression throughput, and energy efficiency of different usage scenarios typical for mobile computing. We observe a wide variety of energy costs associated with data compression and provide practical guidelines for selecting the most energy-efficient configurations.
Keywords :
cost reduction; data compression; mobile computing; power aware computing; Pandaboard; communicating data cost reduction; compression ratio; compression throughput; decompression throughput; energy efficiency; experimental evaluation; lossless data compression; lossless decompression; mobile computing devices; storing data cost reduction; Data compression; Energy efficiency; Energy measurement; Mobile handsets; Servers; Throughput; Wireless communication; data compression; energy-aware systems; measurement techniques; mobile computing;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5776-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5778-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISPASS.2013.6557156
