EARLY ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE TO ESTIMATE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN ANDROID PLATFORM

摘要

In recent years, the popularities of smartphones and its apps have been growing exponentially. This growth have made mobile applications more complex and require a large amount of energy to run in an efficient manner. It means mobile applications rely heavily on battery consumption. However, battery consumption is still a limiting factor in mobile applications development. To this end, a mobile software architecture plays a crucial role in determining the performance of a mobile application in terms of energy consumption. Up to date, there has been limited work to assist mobile applications developers to select the most suitable software architecture that intends to manage resources consumption during the design phase accordingly. Hence, this paper aims at presenting a consumption analysis of two different architectures, namely; Server-centric architecture and Mobile-centric architecture. This analysis helps to identify the least energy-consuming architecture. Moreover, Data Retrieval Information System (DRIS) in Android mobile applications has been used as a case study to prove the effects of software architectures concept in reducing energy consumption. The analysis results have shown that Mobile-centric architecture is less energy-consuming.