ICE: Collaborating Memory and Process Management for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices

  • Changlong Li
  • , Yu Liang*
  • , Rachata Ausavarungnirun
  • , Zongwei Zhu
  • , Liang Shi
  • , Chun Jason Xue
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mobile devices with limited resources are prevalent as they have a relatively low price. Providing a good user experience with limited resources has been a big challenge. This paper found that foreground applications are often unexpectedly interfered by background applications’ memory activities. Improving user experience on resource-limited mobile devices calls for a strong collaboration between memory and process management. This paper proposes a framework, Ice, to optimize the user experience on resource-limited mobile devices. With Ice, processes that will cause frequent refaults in the background are identified and frozen accordingly. The frozen application will be thawed when memory condition allows. Evaluation of resource-limited mobile devices demonstrates that the user experience is effectively improved with Ice. Specifically, Ice boosts the frame rate by 1.57x on average over the state-of-the-art.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2023
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages79-93
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394871
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 May 2023
Event18th European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2023 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 8 May 202312 May 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2023

Conference

Conference18th European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period8/05/2312/05/23

Keywords

  • Memory Management
  • Mobile Device
  • Process Freezing
  • User Experience

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