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Detecting no-sleep energy bugs using reference counted variables

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Scott Hall,

Suman Nataraj,

Dae-Kyoo KimAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft '18: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 161 - 165

https://doi.org/10.1145/3197231.3197257

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

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Mobile devices have become pervasive in today's society. The range of their use has been constantly increasing, which requires more computing capability. As the computing capability of mobile devices grow, so does the need for effective power management. There has been some work on reducing the power consumption of mobile applications by detecting energy bugs. In this work, we address no-sleep energy bugs with respect to semaphore wakelocks in consideration of race conditions with synchronization using reaching definitions and parallel flow graphs. We demonstrate the approach through a case example.

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MOBILESoft '18: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

May 2018

275 pages

ISBN:9781450357128

DOI:10.1145/3197231

General Chair:
Christine Julien
The University of Texas at Austin
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Grace Lewis
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
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Itai Segall
Nokia Bell Labs, Israel

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Shahab ANaseer AZafar MNadeem A(2021)Detection of Energy Bugs in Android Applications: A Systematic Literature Review2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)10.1109/FIT53504.2021.00012(7-12)Online publication date: Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT53504.2021.00012
Sakhare PKim DHamdi M(2019)Detecting No-Sleep Bugs Using Sequential Reference Counts2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.00151(940-941)Online publication date: Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.00151

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