Inferring energy bounds via static program analysis and evolutionary modeling of basic blocks

Liqat, Umer, Bankovíc, Zorana, López Garcia, Pedro and Hermenegildo, Manuel V. (2018). Inferring energy bounds via static program analysis and evolutionary modeling of basic blocks. In: "27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation ( LOPSTR 2017)", 10-12 Oct 2017, Namur, Bélgica. ISBN 978-3-319-94460-9. pp. 54-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94460-9_4.

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Title: Inferring energy bounds via static program analysis and evolutionary modeling of basic blocks
Author/s:
  • Liqat, Umer
  • Bankovíc, Zorana
  • López Garcia, Pedro
  • Hermenegildo, Manuel V.
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation ( LOPSTR 2017)
Event Dates: 10-12 Oct 2017
Event Location: Namur, Bélgica
Title of Book: Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-94460-9
Volume: 10855
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Energy modeling; Evolutionary algorithms; Static analysis; Energy consumption analysis and verification Resource analysis and verification
Faculty: E.T.S. de Ingenieros Informáticos (UPM)
Department: Inteligencia Artificial
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

The ever increasing number and complexity of energy-bound devices (such as the ones used in Internet of Things applications, smart phones, and mission critical systems) pose an important challenge on techniques to optimize their energy consumption and to verify that they will perform their function within the available energy budget. In this work we address this challenge from the software point of view and propose a novel approach to estimating accurate parametric bounds on the energy consumed by program executions that are practical for their application to energy verification and optimization. Our approach divides a program into basic (branchless) blocks and performs a best effort modeling to estimate upper and lower bounds on the energy consumption for each block using an evolutionary algorithm. Then it combines the obtained values according to the program control flow, using a safe static analysis, to infer functions that give both upper and lower bounds on the energy consumption of the whole program and its procedures as functions on input data sizes. We have tested our approach on (C-like) embedded programs running on the XMOS hardware platform. However, our method is general enough to be applied to other microprocessor architectures and programming languages. The bounds obtained by our prototype implementation on a set of benchmarks were always safe and quite accurate. This supports our hypothesis that our approach offers a good compromise between safety and accuracy, and can be applied in practice for energy verification and optimization.

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Item ID: 52862
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/52862/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:52862
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94460-9_4
Official URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-31...
Deposited by: Biblioteca Facultad de Informatica
Deposited on: 29 Oct 2018 17:05
Last Modified: 30 Nov 2022 09:54
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