Optimal Planning of Dynamic Thermal Management for NANS (N-App N-Screen) Services

• Main Authors: Ohchul Kwon, Wonjae Jang, Giyeon Kim, Chang-Gun Lee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
• Series: Electronics
• Subjects: dynamic thermal management; QoS optimization; thermal prediction; thermal model; NANS technology; NANS service; multi-screening; mobile device; smartphone
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/7/11/311

Existing multi-screening technologies have been limited to mirroring the current screen of the smartphone onto all the connected external display devices. In contrast, NANS (N-App N-Screen) technology is able to display different applications (N-App) on different multiple display devices (N-Screen) using only a smartphone. For such NANS services, this paper empirically shows that the thermal violation constraint is more critical than the battery life constraint. For preventing the thermal violation, the existing DTM (Dynamic Thermal Management) techniques cannot be used since they consider thermal violations as abnormal, and hence prevent them by severely throttling CPU frequencies resulting in serious QoS degradation. In NANS service scenarios it is normal to operate in high temperature ranges to continue services with acceptable QoS. Targeting such scenarios, we first propose a novel thermal prediction method specially designed for NANS services. Based on the novel thermal prediction method, we then propose a novel DTM technique called, “thermal planning„ to provide sustainable NANS services with sufficiently high QoS without thermal violations.