標題: Energy Efficient Intra-Task Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Realistic CPUs of Mobile Devices
作者: Yang, Chien-Chung
Wang, Kuochen
Lin, Ming-Ham
Lin, Pochun
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: CPU;energy efficient;intra-task;dynamic voltage scaling;mobile device;real time
公開日期: 1-Jan-2009
摘要: It is not energy efficient to run a CPU at full speed all the time for all kinds of tasks in mobile devices. This paper proposes two energy efficient intra-task dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) algorithms for CPUs. There are three main contributions in this paper. Firstly, unlike the tedious derivation in PACE [2], we have derived the same optimal speed schedule with minimal energy consumption in a discrete and elegant way by using the Lagrange multiplier procedure. Secondly, the CPU model assumed in PACE is ideal, meaning that such a CPU supports all possible frequencies/voltage levels. We call such CPUs as ideal CPUs. In reality, CPUs only support a limited set of frequency/voltage levels, and we call this kind of CPUs as realistic CPUs. Thirdly, since energy consumption is not a simple function of frequency, it is more reasonable to transform the original nonlinear programming problem to the Multiple-Choice Knapsack Problem (MCKP). Since the problem can be described by a multistage graph, we used dynamic programming to derive an Optimal Schedule for Realistic CPUs (OSRC) with minimal energy consumption for realistic CPUs by using actual power consumption specifications of realistic CPUs. Considering potential computation and transition overheads, we have also proposed a low overhead OSRC (LO-OSRC), which restricts the change of CPU frequency/voltage to only once in the speed schedule. By using actual data from the power consumption specifications of two classical CPUs for evaluation, experimental results have shown that the energy saving of the proposed OSRC (LO-OSRC) is up to 10.3% (9.4%) better than that of PACE for realistic CPUs.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/7977
ISSN: 1016-2364
期刊: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume: 25
Issue: 1
起始頁: 251
結束頁: 272
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