Title
An Efficient Mixed-Mode Execution Environment for C on Mobile Phone Platforms
Abstract
Mobile devices are constrained in terms of computational power, battery lifetime and memory sizes. Software development for mobile devices is further complicated by application complexity and heterogeneous hardware platforms.Virtual Machines (VMs) abstract from the underlying hardware, but their use with embedded devices can only be justified if the interpretive overhead is kept to a minimum.In this paper we argue that efficient byte code execution is feasible on mobile devices. We adapt a VM for the Cprogramming language for ARM-based mobile phone platforms.Our VM utilizes latest interpreter technologies to achieve high performance. It offers mixed-mode execution,i.e., code is either executed on the VM or on the CPU, to combine the advantages of VM-based hardware abstraction with the speed of machine-code.We conduct extensive experiments with the MiBench embedded benchmark suite to evaluate VM-performance and the effectiveness of interpreter optimizations on an ARMbasedmobile phone platform. Our interpreter consumes just 10.55KB of code and 0.9KB of data. For all surveyed applications, we achieve a slowdown of less than a factor of 23 over binary code execution, which makes our VM aviable option for byte code execution on mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CSIE.2009.909
CSIE (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
benchmark testing,mobile computing,software development,embedded systems,data mining,embedded system,hardware,virtual machine,mobile device,mobile communication,virtual machines
Mobile computing,Central processing unit,Virtual machine,Computer science,Hardware abstraction,Mobile device,Mobile phone,Mobile telephony,Benchmark (computing),Operating system,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
13
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taekhoon Kim1101.59
Sungho Kim2211.95
Kirak Hong321813.15
Hwangho Kim481.20
Jiin Park591.55
Yousun Ko6383.49
Bernd Burgstaller713317.54
Bernhard Scholz8434.57