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Selectively Taming Background Android Apps to Improve Battery Lifetime

Authors: 

Marcelo Martins, Brown University; Justin Cappos, New York University; Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University

Abstract: 

Background activities on mobile devices can cause significant battery drain with little visibility or recourse to the user. They can range from useful but sometimes overly aggressive tasks, such as polling for messages or updates from sensors and online services, to outright bugs that cause resources to be held unnecessarily. In this paper we instrument the Android OS to characterize background activities that prevent the device from sleeping. We present TAMER, an OS mechanism that interposes on events and signals that cause task wakeups, and allows for their detailed monitoring, filtering, and rate-limiting. We demonstrate how TAMER can help reduce battery drain in scenarios involving popular Android apps with background tasks. We also show how TAMER can mitigate the effects of well-known energy bugs while maintaining most of the apps’ functionality. Finally, we elaborate on how developers and users can devise their own application-control policies for TAMER to maximize battery lifetime.

Marcelo Martins, Brown University

Justin Cappos, New York University

Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {190467,
author = {Marcelo Martins and Justin Cappos and Rodrigo Fonseca},
title = {Selectively Taming Background Android Apps to Improve Battery Lifetime},
booktitle = {2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 15)},
year = {2015},
isbn = {978-1-931971-225},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {563--575},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc15/technical-session/presentation/martins},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul,
}
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