58310110 Seminar: Energy-awareness in mobile systems (3 cr)

Teacher prof. Sasu Tarkoma

Results for the Spring 2010 seminar are now available in the Intranet. Reception on 25.5. 14-15 in D229.

Time and place: 20.01.-24.02. Wed 16-18 C220, 17.03.-28.04. Wed 12-14 B119 (detailed schedule will be posted later).
(Note that the time for the first period has changed!)

The aim of this seminar is to investigate and discuss current state of the art solutions in energy and power management for mobile systems. Modelling and optimizing energy consumption is crucial for current and forthcoming mobile devices. The mobile application execution environment consists of a number of processes and typically applications can manage a number of threads and parallel connections. This makes the environment challenging for energy and power management. A number of solutions have been proposed for energy and power management. The aim of the seminar is to identify and discuss recent developments in the area.

The seminar will be held in English.

Completing the Seminar

In order to successfully complete the seminar, you need to perform the following four tasks:

Write a paper about a topic agreed during the first meetings.
Review at least one seminar paper.
Prepare and give a presentation.
Participate in the seminar by being active during the sessions.

The seminar is structured in two parts. In the first phase, the students select a topic and prepare an article that surveys and discusses the topic. The articles are then presented during the second part of the seminar. A good length for the paper is about 6-7 pages using the IEEE Transactions format. The presentations are about 30 minutes in length.

Deadlines:

First session on 20.1.
Paper finished by 17.3. (no session)
Reviews done by 24.3. (no session)
Presentations will be scheduled starting on 31.3.

The article template can be found (Latex) at: http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html

Topics

The topics span the networking stack and include the following:

Application layer energy management.
Transport layer energy optimization.
Energy profiling and monitoring.
Energy-enhancing proxies in the communications environment.
Energy related user interface issues in mobile systems.
Building energy profiles using regression methods.
Energy-efficient runtime.
...

Slides for the first session with more information about the topics

Wiki

A wiki page has been created that will be used to disseminate seminar information, such as topics, article, and the detailed schedule.

Seminar wiki

Grading

The grading will be based on the written article (40%), the presentation (40%), and activity during the seminar (20%). Participation to the seminar sessions are mandatory (80% participation is minimum).