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

doi:10.1145/3552326.3567497

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

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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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. © 2023 Association for Computing Machinery.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EuroSys '23: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	79-93
ISBN (Print)	9781450394871
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3552326.3567497
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2023EuroSys '23) - Auditorium Antonianum, Rome, Italy Duration: 8 May 2023 → 12 May 2023 https://2023.eurosys.org/ https://2023.eurosys.org/venue.html#venues

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Name	Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys

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Conference	18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2023EuroSys '23)
Abbreviated title	EuroSys 2023
Place	Italy
City	Rome
Period	8/05/23 → 12/05/23
Internet address	https://2023.eurosys.org/ https://2023.eurosys.org/venue.html#venues

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Memory Management
Mobile Device
Process Freezing
User Experience

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Li, C., Liang, Y., Ausavarungnirun, R., Zhu, Z., Shi, L., & Xue, C. J. (2023). ICE: Collaborating Memory and Process Management for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices. In EuroSys '23: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (pp. 79-93). (Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3552326.3567497

Li, Changlong ; Liang, Yu ; Ausavarungnirun, Rachata et al. / ICE : Collaborating Memory and Process Management for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices. EuroSys '23: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. pp. 79-93 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys).

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Li, C, Liang, Y, Ausavarungnirun, R, Zhu, Z, Shi, L & Xue, CJ 2023, ICE: Collaborating Memory and Process Management for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices. in EuroSys '23: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 79-93, 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2023EuroSys '23), Rome, Italy, 8/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3552326.3567497

ICE: Collaborating Memory and Process Management for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices. / Li, Changlong; Liang, Yu; Ausavarungnirun, Rachata et al.
EuroSys '23: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 79-93 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys).

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