Battery-aware power management based on Markovian decision processes

  • Authors:
  • Peng Rong;M. Pedram

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the capacity utilization of the battery power source in a portable electronic system under latency and loss rate constraints. First, a detailed stochastic model of a power-managed battery-powered electronic system is presented. The model, which is based on the theories of continuous-time Markovian decision processes (CTMDP) and stochastic networks, captures two important characteristics of today's rechargeable battery cells; i.e., the current rate-capacity characteristic and the relaxation induced capacity recovery. Next, the battery-aware dynamic power management (DPM) problem is formulated as a policy optimization problem and is solved by using a linear programming approach. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods by more than 20% in terms of battery service lifetime