OntheEnergyConsumptionofDesignPatternsChristianBunseUniversityofAppliedSciencesStralsundZurSchwedenschanze1518435StralsundSebastianStiemerUniversityofAppliedSciencesStralsundZurSchwedenschanze1518435StralsundMarch29,2013Introduction.
Energyisoneofthemostlimitingfactorsforinformation&communicationtechnologiesingeneraland,morespecicallyformobiledevicessuchasSmartphones.
Inmostapplicationscenarios,mobiledevicesdonothaveapermanentpowersupplybutuserechargeablebatteries.
Duetotheincreasinghard-wareperformanceandotherdevicepropertiesenergyrequirementsincreasefurther.
However,softwareuti-lizeshardwareandthereforedirectlyaectstheenergyrequirementsoftheentiresystem.
Energy-awaresoftwaredevelopment,energy-awarealgorithmsandenergy-awaresensorsubstitutionareonlythreeexamplesforrecentresearchthattrytoreduceenergyrequirementsbyoptimizingthesoftwareratherthanthehardware.
Energyconsumptionisanimportantsystemproperty,thathasalreadytobeaddressedintheearlystagesofdevelopment.
Inturn,thisrequiresknowledgeonbest-practicesandstructuresfordevelopingenergy-ecientsoftwaresystems.
Following[1],patternsplaymanyrolesinsoftwaredevelopment:theyprovideacommonvocabulary,re-ducesystemcomplexity,constituteabaseforbuildingreusablesoftware,andactasbuildingblocks.
Itisacom-monbelievethatsoftwarequalityincreasesbypatternapplication.
But,theimpactofapatternontopropertiessuchasperformance,securityorenergyconsumptioniswidelyunknown.
Inthispaper,wecomparetheimpactofdesignpatternsontotheenergyconsumptionofmobile(i.
e.
,smartphonebased)applications.
SmallappsfortheAndroidplatformweredevelopedthateitheruseornotuseaspecicpattern.
TheenergyconsumptionoftheseappswasmeasuredbyusingthePowerTutor-App,developedattheUniversityofMichigan.
Theresultsregardingtheselectedpatternsubset(facade,abstractfactory,observer,decorator,prototype,andtemplatemethod)areinteresting.
Especiallythedecoratorpatternshowasignicantnegativeimpactontoenergyconsumption.
Background.
Theresearchpresentedinthispaperisrootedintheresearcheldsofenergy-awarecomput-ingandenergyrequirementascertainmenttechniques.
Manyenergy-awareapproacheseithertrytoreduceen-ergyneedsbysubstitutinghardwareresources[2],orbybalancingenergyrequirementsandinformationquality[3].
In[4]itisillustratedthatasimplesubstitutionoftheresourcescentralprocessingunit,andmemoryhelpstoreducetheamountofenergyrequired.
Theauthorsof[5]showedthatprocessinglessprecisedatarequireslessenergy,andalsopresentasetupformeasuringtheenergyrequirementsofcoreandmemoryofamicrocontrollerbasedsystem,runningsortingalgorithms.
Energymeasurementforsoftwarecaneitherbebasedonhardwareorsoftware-basedapproaches[6].
[7]providesanapproachforgeneratingenergymodelsformobilesystemsbyusingthesmartbatteryinterfaceaccompaniedbymeanstoachieveaccuracy.
ToolssuchastheNokiaEnergyProlerorPowerTutor[8]enabledeveloperstomonitorpowerconsumption.
Thesetoolsarebasedonanunderlyingcostmodelthat,itself,isderivedbyanalyzingaspecicdevice(i.
e.
NokiaS60).
[9]presentsapowermodelingschemeandanimplementationthatallowsne-grainedenergyaccounting.
Insoftwareengineering,apatternisageneralre-peatablesolutiontoacommonlyoccurringproblem[1].
Apatternisanabstracttemplatethatneedstoberenedandadaptedbeforeitcanbeintegratedintothecode.
Patternsfocusondescriptionsthatcommunicatethereasonsfordesigndecisions.
But,littleisknownabouttheirimpactontosystemproperties[10].
[11]examinestheimpactofusingdesignpatternsontoper-formanceandprovideaprocessforpatternselection.
[12]presentsanapproachformappingsoftwaredesigntopowerconsumptionandanalyzehowdesigndecisionsaectanapplication'senergyusage.
[13]analyzessixdesignpatternsandexploretheeectofthemonenergyconsumptionandperformance.
ExperimentsExistingapproacheshaveshownthatpatternusageimpactsenergyconsumptionatleastwhenitcomestoembeddedsystems[13]orC++basedcode[12].
Thegoalofourresearchwasevaluatingtheimpactofpatternsontotheenergyconsumptionofmo-bilesystemsthatuseJava.
Theunderlyinghypothesisbeingthatusingornotusingaspecicpatternwillsignicantlychangeenergyneeds.
Resultscanthenbeusedasastartingpointforfurtherexplorationinordertoidentifywhyandhowthedesignpatternsimpacten-ergyconsumption.
WeselectedasubsetoftheGammapatterns(facade,abstractfactory,observer,decorator,prototype,andtemplatemethod).
Toevaluatetheim-pactofasinglepatternwedevelopedtwo,comparableapplicationsforeachpatternthateitheruseornotusethepattern.
Implementationlooselyfollowedstandardimplementationsavailableintextbooks.
Energycon-sumptionwasthenmeasuredbyusingthePowerTutorApprunningonvariousphones(NexusOne,GalaxySII,Transformer)wherebyexperimentsandmeasurementswerecoordinatedbyaframework.
Figure1:ExperimentalResultsTable1showstheresultsoftherstexperimentseries.
WhilemeasurementsforpatternssuchasFacade,ObserverorTemplateMethodshownodierence,theresultsforthePrototypeandDecoratorshowalargedierenceintimeandenergyneeds(15,2vs.
35.
4and374vs.
873,8).
Thereasonforthegrossdierencemightbethelargeamountofobjectsinstantiationsandmethodcallsofthepattern-basedsystem.
Thissupportsthendingsof[4]thatmemoryconsumptionusingtheheapaswellasthegarbagecollectorareenergy-intensiveoperationsthatalsohaveanegativeimpactontoperformance.
Althoughinteresting,ourresultscanonlybeusedasanindicatorduetoseveralthreatstovalidity.
Implementationandmeasurementmightnotbegeneralizable.
Thiswarrantsfurtherresearch.
SummaryandConclusions.
Inthispaper,wepre-sentedacasestudythatexaminedtheimpactofdesignpatternapplicationontoasystemsenergyconsumption.
Twogroupsofapps,eitherusingornotusingapattern,weredevelopedandmeasured.
TheresultsforadistinctsubsetoftheGammapatternsshowed,thatespeciallythedecoratorpatternhasanegativeimpactontheen-ergyneedsofanapp.
Duetothelowtemporalresolutionofthesoftwaremeasurementmethod,evaluationswithashortruntimeareerror-proneandtheusedsystemsmightnotberepresentable.
However,theinterpretationoftheevaluationresultssupportsourhypothesisandjustiesfurtherresearch.
Usingpatternsisnotalwaysagoodidea.
Theirselectionshouldnotsolelybebasedontofunctionandstructurebutalsoaccordingotherproperties.
Althoughtheresultsofourstudyarenotgeneralizable,theresultsindicate,thatfurtherresearchiswarrantedthatexaminestheimpactofpatternsre-gardingdierentplatformsandapplications.
Resultscanthenbeusedformeta-analysis.
Duringourstudy,wewereabletosupportourhy-pothesesbut,inturn,alsoidentiedissuesthatwarrantfurtherresearch.
First,therobustnessofourapproachregardingthehardwareplatformhastobeevaluated.
Furthermore,itisinterestingtotakeadeeperlookintothecharacteristicsoftheenergyrequirementsofotherpatternsoridioms.
Resultsmightthenbeusedtodeneanti-patternsregardingsoftwareenergyconsumption.
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