Paper Info
Title
Characterization of Shared Library Access Patterns of Android Applications
Abstract
We analyze the instruction access patterns of Android applications. Although Android applications are ordinarily written in Java, we find that native-code shared libraries play a large role in their instruction footprint. Specifically, averaging over a wide range of applications, we find that 60% of the instruction pages accessed belong to native-code shared libraries and 72% of the instruction fetches are from these same pages. Moreover, given the extensive use of native-code shared libraries, we find that, for any pair of applications, on average 28% of the overall instruction pages accessed by one of the applications are also accessed by the other. These results suggest the possibility of optimizations targeting shared libraries in order to improve instruction access efficiency and overall performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IISWC.2015.19
IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile platforms, shared libraries, Android process creation model
World Wide Web,Android (operating system),Computer science,Parallel computing,Footprint,Java
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaowan Dong161.10
Sandhya Dwarkadas23504257.31
Alan L. Cox32635223.67