Efficient energy exploration for embedded systems

Mobile and ubiquitous computation of embedded system exacerbates energy consumption. In this work, we propose minimum energy path (MEP) approach to improve energy efficiency for embedded system. The MEP adopts path-based strategy to constructs a set of path class. Each path comprises the number of tasks that will be sequentially determined the role depending on the energy consumption. As a result, the energy efficiency is gradually improved while sequential paths are progressively identified the role of tasks. Experimental results show that MEP that can achieve 7.88% energy saving on average in all cases.

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