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The present investigation aims to carry out a comparative study on the energy consumption associated with the applications of anti-virus for smartphones running with the Android operating system. The characteristics and attributes of the devices used in this study are provided, with the details of the functionality offered by the different anti-virus applications. A methodology is proposed that includes the development of an application that through a service performs periodic measurements of the remaining percentage of the battery and the voltage demanded by the applications; allowing to estimate the variations of the voltage generated by anti-virus applications and their energy impact on the battery. The experimental results show that in general, anti-virus applications have a high power consumption with power levels ranging from 6 to 16 mW when the application is active, although the different anti-virus solutions are also verified.
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Vera-Burgos, E., Zamora, W., Mendoza-Rodriguez, H., Santamaría-Philco, A., Vera-Navarrete, D., Quiroz-Palma, P. (2019). Energy Consumption for Anti-virus Applications in Android OS. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Paredes, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11890-7_33
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