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Improving smartphone responsiveness through I/O optimizations

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Smartphones suffer various unpredictable delays, e.g., when launching an application. In this work, we investigate the behavior of reads and writes in smartphones. We conduct the first large-scale measurement study on the Android I/O delay using the data collected from our Android application running on 1480 devices within 188 days. Among others, we observe that reads experience up to 626% slowdown when blocked by concurrent writes. We use this obtained knowledge to design a pilot solution that reduces application delays by prioritizing reads over writes. The evaluation shows that our system reduces launch delays by up to 37.8%.

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UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

September 2014

1409 pages

ISBN:9781450330473

DOI:10.1145/2638728

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AJ Brush
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University of Washington
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Junehwa Song
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KR

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