Power-Aware Data Management Based on Hybrid RAM-NVM Memory for Smart Bracelet

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2017-04-14
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Wearabledevicesbecomepopularbecausetheycanhelppeopleobservehealthcondition.Thebatterylifeisthecriticalproblemforwearabledevices.Thenon-volatilememory(NVM)attractsattentioninrecentyearsbecauseofitsfastreadingandwritingspeed,highdensity,persistence,andespeciallylowidlepower.Withitslowidlepowerconsumption,NVMcanbeappliedinwearabledevicestoprolongthebatterylifetimesuchassmartbracelet.However,NVMhashigherwritepowerconsumptionthandynamicrandomaccessmemory(DRAM).Inthispaper,weassumetousehybridrandomaccessmemory(RAM)andNVMarchitectureforthesmartbraceletsystem.Thispaperpresentsadatamanagementalgorithmnamedbraceletpower-awaredatamanagement(BPADM)basedonthearchitecture.TheBPADMcanestimatethepowerconsumptionaccordingtothememoryaccess,suchassamplingrateofdata,andthendeterminethedatashouldbestoredinNVMorDRAMinordertosatisfylowpower.TheexperimentalresultsshowBPADMcanreducepowerconsumptioneffectivelyforbraceletinnormalandsleepingmodes.