ICAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Virtualization and consolidation are two complementary techniques widely adopted in a global strategy to reduce system management complexity. In this paper we show how two simple ...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
For wireless mobile Internet users the length of the battery life is one of the most important performance factors. The energy efficiency of the data transmission over radio is a ...
IDEAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Improving the detection of thermal insulation in buildings –which includes the development of models for heating and ventilation processes and fabric gain - could significantly i...
ICC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—This paper presents a cooperative single-input multiple-output (SIMO) transmission scheme for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where the number of antennas and the constellation...
MSWIM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
In recent years, the number of sensor network deployments for real-life applications has rapidly increased and it is expected to expand even more in the near future. Actually, for...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
One of the major challenges of designing a dissemination protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is energy efficiency. Flooding and SPIN, which are very well-known proactive ...
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2005
ACM
Energy efficiency has become a critical issue for battery-driven computers. Significant work has been devoted to improving it through better software and hardware. However, the hu...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2007
ACM
The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability,...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper analyzes the power consumption patterns and the energy efficiency of flash-based SSDs using microbenchmarks for raw I/Os as well as macrobenchmarks with two different f...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
This article outlines several projects aimed at generating electrical energy by passively tapping a variety of human body sources and activities. After summarizing different energ...