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Carat: collaborative energy diagnosis for mobile devices
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We aim to detect and diagnose energy anomalies, abnormally heavy battery use. This paper describes a collaborative black-box method, and an implementation called Carat, for diagnosing anomalies on mobile devices. A client app sends intermittent, coarse-grained measurements to a server, which correlates higher expected energy use with client properties like the running apps, device model, and operating system. The analysis quantifies the error and confidence associated with a diagnosis, suggests actions the user could take to improve battery life, and projects the amount of improvement. During a deployment to a community of more than 500,000 devices, Carat diagnosed thousands of energy anomalies in the wild. Carat detected all synthetically injected anomalies, produced no known instances of false positives, projected the battery impact of anomalies with 95% accuracy, and, on average, increased a user's battery life by 11% after 10 days (compared with 1.9% for the control group).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Oliner, A. J., Iyer, A. P., Stoica, I., Lagerspetz, E., & Tarkoma, S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2013-11-11
- Pages
- 1-14
- OpenAlex
- W2121746381
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 32.84
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hewlett-Packard Development Company
- NetApp
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF-1139158)
- Intel Corporation
- Microsoft
- Cisco Systems
- VMware
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (FA8650-11-C-7136)
- Ericsson
- Splunk
- Blue Goji
- Huawei Technologies
- Amazon Web Services
- SAP America
- Cloudera
- General Electric
- Oracle
- Quanta
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Software System Performance and Reliability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Mobile and Web Applications
- Keywords
- coarse-grained measurements, false positive reduction
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