Aaron Carroll
PhD Student

Research Interests

Aaron works on smartphone energy management, and is primarily interested in how multi-core applications processors can be used to reduce energy consumption when combined with well-established techniques such as frequency/voltage scaling. He also works on understanding how energy is consumed within smartphones, using physical instrumentation and measurement on real-world devices. Recently, Aaron has been exploring techniques which exploit multi-core CPUs to improve sequential performance.

Contact Details

Phone:	+61 2 8306 0559

More contact information is available at the Contact page.

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Past

Qualifications

Aaron holds a B.E. (Electrical Engineering) with first class honours, and a B.Sc. (Computer Science), both from the University of New South Wales.

Publications

Google Scholar profile
Best Papers
TS Group Papers (2014, 2013, 2010)

Best Papers

Aaron Carroll and Gernot Heiser
An analysis of power consumption in a smartphone
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 271–284, Boston, MA, US, June, 2010

Trustworthy Systems Group Papers

2017

Aaron Carroll
Understanding and reducing smartphone energy consumption
PhD Thesis, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, May, 2017

2014

Aaron Carroll and Gernot Heiser
Unifying DVFS and offlining in mobile multicores
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 287–296, Berlin, Germany, April, 2014

2013

		Aaron Carroll and Gernot Heiser Mobile multicores: Use them or waste them Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems, pp. 5, Farmington, PA, USA, November, 2013 A revised version of this paper was published in Operating Systems Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2014, pages 44-48.
		Aaron Carroll and Gernot Heiser The systems hacker’s guide to the Galaxy: Energy usage in a modern smartphone Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), pp. 7, Singapore, July, 2013 Best Student Paper Award

2010