BatteryLab: A Collaborative Platform for Power Monitoring

Matteo Varvello Kleomenis Katevas Mihai Plesa Hamed Haddadi Benjamin Livshits

2022

Publication year

PAM

Venue

Peer-reviewed

Type

§ Abstract

Summary

Mobile device power consumption is a critical metric for both application developers and researchers, yet existing tools for measuring power drain are either imprecise or require expensive specialized hardware. We present BatteryLab, a distributed power monitoring platform that enables collaborative, high-precision energy measurement of mobile applications. BatteryLab combines hardware power monitors with a cloud-based orchestration layer, allowing researchers to run power experiments on real devices remotely. We deploy BatteryLab across a testbed of 40 Android and iOS devices, demonstrating that it can measure energy consumption with sub-milliwatt precision for over 100 concurrent experiments.

Cite this paper — BibTeX

@InProceedings{batterylabacollaborative,
  title = "{BatteryLab: A Collaborative Platform for Power Monitoring}",
  author = "Matteo Varvello and Kleomenis Katevas and Mihai Plesa and Hamed Haddadi and Benjamin Livshits",
  year = "2022",
  month = mar,
  booktitle = "Passive and Active Measurement Conference",
}