EA-GLES: An energy-aware 3D graphics library for mobile devices

The goal of desktop-class graphics hardware is generally to provide the maximum performances possible to end users. This goal is shared also by mobile hardware designers, although, due the use of a battery as power source, a greater attention needs to be devoted to energy saving. In the last years, a number of approaches to hardware design have been experimented aimed to trade-off the quality of the visual experience with the usage of computational resources, that is to say, with energy consumption. The objective of this work is to tackle energy issues at the software, i.e., at the application level, by introducing a high-level library based on OpenGL ES (often abbreviated GLES) that can be exploited by developers to create energy-aware graphics applications letting end users chose the maximum amount of energy to consume.