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Prefetching mobile ads: Can advertising systems afford it (2013)
| Venue: | In EuroSys |
| Citations: | 9 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Mohan13prefetchingmobile,
author = {Prashanth Mohan and Suman Nath and Oriana Riva},
title = {Prefetching mobile ads: Can advertising systems afford it},
booktitle = {In EuroSys},
year = {2013}
}
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Abstract
Mobile app marketplaces are dominated by free apps that rely on advertising for their revenue. These apps place increased demands on the already limited battery lifetime of modern phones. For example, in the top 15 free Windows Phone apps, we found in-app advertising contributes to 65% of the app’s total communication energy (or 23 % of the app’s total energy). Despite their small size, downloading ads each time an app is started and at regular refresh intervals forces the network radio to be continuously woken up, thus leading to a high energy overhead, so-called ’tail energy ’ problem. A straightforward mechanism to lower this overhead is to prefetch ads in bulk and serve them locally. However, the prefetching of ads is at odds with the real-time nature of modern advertising systems wherein ads are sold through
Keyphrases
mobile ad mobile app marketplace small size free apps so-called tail energy problem straightforward mechanism modern phone modern advertising system high energy overhead free window phone apps real-time nature app total energy network radio regular refresh interval limited battery lifetime app total communication energy in-app advertising contributes apps place
