Modern smartphones have extensive capabilities and connectivities, comparable to those of
personal computers (PCs). As the number of smartphone features increases, smartphone …

Improving the Boot Time of the Android OS Page 1 1 Xia Yang, University of Electronic Science
and Technology of China, China Nan Sang, University of Electronic Science and Technology …

Fast kernel boot-time is one of the major concerns in industrial embedded systems.
Application domains where boot time is relevant include (among others) automation …

An image forming apparatus for updating a boot image for fast booting includes an interface
unit to receive a new version of firmware to update a previous version of firmware installed in …

The demand for fast startup is mostly motivated by embedded systems, especially for home
appliances such as digital TV. Though a new storage device such as a flash memory may …

A method of generating a boot image for fast booting an image forming apparatus. In the
method, a boot image is generated to contain information regarding a system state after …

Booting is an essential process that loads an operating system (OS) to a main memory and
initializes all the system. In this paper, we propose a new technique to shorten the boot-up …

Increasingly complex Android OS applications demand additional software initialization and
configuration during startup, which slows system boot time and inconveniences users. The …

Having a quick boot time has become a major issue in many consumer electronics to
improve a user experience. Although instant on/off with persistent memory claims less than 1 …

Improving system boot time has become one of the most important issues in the system
software arena. As Linux is widely used in the embedded system environment, extensive …