Dynamic Clock Reconfiguration for the Constrained IoT and its Application to Energy-efficient Networking

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Beitragende

Abstract

Clock configuration takes a key role in tuning constrained general-purpose microcontrollers for performance, timing accuracy, and energy efficiency. Configuring the underlying clock tree, however, involves a large parameter space with complex dependencies and dynamic constraints. We argue for clock configuration as a generic operating system module that bridges the gap between highly configurable but complex embedded hardware and easy application development. In this paper, we propose a method and a runtime subsystem for dynamic clock reconfiguration on constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices named ScaleClock. ScaleClock derives measures to dynamically optimize clock configurations by abstracting the hardware-specific clock trees. The Scale-Clock system service grants portable access to the optimization potential of dynamic clock scaling for applications. We implement the approach on the popular IoT operating system RIOT for two target platforms of different manufacturers and evaluate its performance in static and dynamic scenarios on real devices. We demonstrate the potential of ScaleClock by designing a platform-independent dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) mechanism that enables RIOT to autonomously adapt the hardware performance to requirements of the software currently executed. In a use case study, we manage to boost energy efficiency of constrained network communication by reducing the MCU consumption by 40 % at negligible performance impact.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelEWSN '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
Redakteure/-innenAlois Ferscha, Mun Choon Chan, Salil Kanhere, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Seiten168-179
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheEWSN: Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
ISSN2562-2331

Konferenz

Titel19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
KurztitelEWSN 2022
Veranstaltungsnummer19
Dauer3 - 5 Oktober 2022
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtJohannes Kepler University
StadtLinz
LandÖsterreich

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/142241906

Schlagworte

Fächergruppen, Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche, Fachgebiete nach Destatis

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • DVFS, Embedded Systems, Energy