A measurement study of the linux kernel for android mobile computer

Abstract

Performance evaluation of the computer system helps in determining how well it is performing and whether any improvements need to be made. Recently, Android has been the fastest growing mobile platform ever in the history of the world. However, the performance of Android platform has not known well. In this paper, we present our project on measuring the performance and the behaviors of Linux kernel on Android mobile computer, and introduce some preliminary results of experiment. The measurement data from this study can be used to improve the performance of Android mobile platform. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.