Automated Energy Optimization of HTTP Requests for Mobile Applications

Energy is a critical resource for apps that run on mobile devices. Among all operations, making HTTP requests is one of the most energy consuming. Previous studies have shown that bundling smaller HTTP requests into a single larger HTTP request can be an effective way to improve energy efficiency of...

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Published in:Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 249 - 260
Main Authors: Ding Li, Yingjun Lyu, Jiaping Gui, Halfond, William G. J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: ACM 14.05.2016
Subjects:
Energy consumption
Energy optimization
HTTP requests
Mobile apps
Mobile communication
Optimization
Protocols
Runtime
Servers
Uniform resource locators
ISSN:1558-1225
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Abstract Energy is a critical resource for apps that run on mobile devices. Among all operations, making HTTP requests is one of the most energy consuming. Previous studies have shown that bundling smaller HTTP requests into a single larger HTTP request can be an effective way to improve energy efficiency of network communication, but have not defined an automated way to detect when apps can be bundled nor to transform the apps to do this bundling. In this paper we propose an approach to reduce the energy consumption of HTTP requests in Android apps by automatically detecting and then bundling multiple HTTP requests. Our approach first detects HTTP requests that can be bundled using static analysis, then uses a proxy based technique to bundle HTTP requests at runtime. We evaluated our approach on a set of real world marketplace Android apps. In this evaluation, our approach achieved an average energy reduction of 15% for the subject apps and did not impose a significant runtime overhead on the optimized apps.
AbstractList Energy is a critical resource for apps that run on mobile devices. Among all operations, making HTTP requests is one of the most energy consuming. Previous studies have shown that bundling smaller HTTP requests into a single larger HTTP request can be an effective way to improve energy efficiency of network communication, but have not defined an automated way to detect when apps can be bundled nor to transform the apps to do this bundling. In this paper we propose an approach to reduce the energy consumption of HTTP requests in Android apps by automatically detecting and then bundling multiple HTTP requests. Our approach first detects HTTP requests that can be bundled using static analysis, then uses a proxy based technique to bundle HTTP requests at runtime. We evaluated our approach on a set of real world marketplace Android apps. In this evaluation, our approach achieved an average energy reduction of 15% for the subject apps and did not impose a significant runtime overhead on the optimized apps.
Author Halfond, William G. J.
Yingjun Lyu
Jiaping Gui
Ding Li
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HTTP requests
Mobile apps
Mobile communication
Optimization
Protocols
Runtime
Servers
Uniform resource locators
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