“…Regression-based models, as is the case for PowerBooter (Zhang et al, 2010), the models by Dong et al, (Dong and Zhong, 2011), Kim et al (Kim et al, 2012), Kim et al (Kim et al, 2015), Shukla et al (Shukla et al, 2016), and Xu et al (Xu et al, 2013) amongst others, are quite popular. However, these models assume-by definition-that the variations in power consumption are linear causing an increased estimation error when it is not the case (Hoque et al, 2015).…”