Integrated power management for video streaming to mobile handheld devices

  • Authors:

  • Shivajit Mohapatra;Radu Cornea;Nikil Dutt;Alex Nicolau;Nalini Venkatasubramanian

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Optimizing user experience for streaming video applications on handheld devices is a significant research challenge. In this paper, we propose an integrated power management approach that unifies low level architectural optimizations (CPU, memory, register), OS power-saving mechanisms (Dynamic Voltage Scaling) and adaptive middleware techniques (admission control, optimal transcoding, network traffic regulation). Specifically, we identify interaction parameters between the different levels and optimize them to significantly reduce power consumption. With knowledge of device configurations, dynamic device parameters and changing system conditions, the middleware layer selects an appropriate video quality and fine tunes the architecture for optimized delivery of video. Our performance results indicate that architectural optimizations that are cognizant of user level parameters(e.g. transcoded video quality) can provide energy gains as high as 57.5% for the CPU and memory. Middleware adaptations to changing network noise levels can save as much as 70% of energy consumed by the wireless network interface. Furthermore, we demonstrate how such an integrated framework, that supports tight coupling of inter-level parameters can enhance user experience on a handheld substantially.