SmartDiet: offloading popular apps to save energy

A. Saarinen, M. Siekkinen, Y. Xiao, J. K. Nurminen, M. Kemppainen, P. Hui. SIGCOMM 2012

[ACM]

Offloading computation to cloud has been widely used for extending battery life of mobile devices. However, little effort has been invested in applying the offloading techniques to communication-related tasks. We propose SmartDiet, a toolkit to identify the constraints that reduce offloading opportunities and to calculate the energy-saving potential of offloading communication-related tasks. SmartDiet traces the method-level application execution and estimates the allocation of communication energy cost from traffic traces. We discuss key features of SmartDiet and show some preliminary results using a prototype implementation.