Selection of an article While selecting the article you would like to present, keep n into account that: Each article is assigned to a session (date) q Articles are related to different topics q Articles require different background knowledge q (specified also on the web page of the course) Articles are assigned on the basis of the email timestamp n (fist arrived, first served) 1
Topic overview The course articles are linked in the course website n Seminar section: q http://www.ida.liu.se/~TDDD50/seminars The topics seminars will focus on are: n Life cycle Data assessment centres Power Networking management Mobile device/app Storage 2
Topic: Life Cycle Assessment Life cycle assessment [1] Title: “Regional or Global WEEE Recycling. Where to Go?” Overview on the electronic waste problem, legislation, n standards and global initiatives A study of the electronic waste movements between importing n and exporting countries Length: 12 pages Required knowledge: basic computer architecture 3
Topic: Mobile devices Mobile device/app [2] Title: “Energy Modeling of System Settings: A Crowdsourced Approach” Quantification and modelling of mobile phone energy n consumption using data collected from 150.000 Android users Which application, system, and network settings impact the n mobile phone energy usage, and by how much? Length: 9 pages Required knowledge: basic computing and networking 4
Topic: Networking Networking [3] Title: “Electricity Intensity of Internet DataTransmission: Untangling the estimates” Analyses and discusses fourteen earlier reports that provide n estimates for the network transmission energy estimates – with results that are different by several orders of magnitude! Tries to answer the question: has Internet transmission energy n in developed countries increased or decreased within a 15 year perspective? Length: 14 pages (Less text, several are large tables) Required knowledge: basic computer networks 5
Data Topic: Data centres centres [4] Title: “Characterizing the power cost of virtualization environments” Compares the power consumption of servers used in data n centres deploying two alternatives: virtual machines and containers Uses both measurements and modelling to understand the n difference between the two solutions’ energy efficiency Length: 11 pages Required knowledge: basic computer architecture 6
Power Topic: Power management management [5] Title: “A Simulation Study of a New Green BitTorrent” Explains the file sharing P2P BitTorrent protocol n Presents improvement to reduce its energy consumption using n power management from the application perspective Analyses the resulting performance tradeoff n Length: 6 pages Required knowledge: basic computer networks 7
Power Topic: Power management management [6] Title: “Parasol and GreenSwitch: Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy” A prototype green datacenter built as a research platform n It uses solar panels and battery as well as grid power as supply n Length: 12 pages (Sections 2 except "Managing workloads in green datacenters" and 5.2 can be skipped) Required knowledge: computer architecture 8
Topic: Networking Networking [7] Title: “IEEE 802.3az: The Road to Energy Efficient Ethernet” Describes the new standard for energy efficient Ethernet to n make network interface cards move to sleep mode Analyses the environmental (energy) and monetary benefits n deriving from the standard Analyses the Quality of Service tradeoff resulting from the n standard application Length: 7 pages Required knowledge: computer networks 9
Topic: Networking Networking [8] Title: “HetNets Powered by Renewable Energy: a Cost Effective Paradigm for Sustainable Next Generation Cellular Networks” Case study: providing energy to a mobile operator network n using renewable sources Considers both environmental and monetary benefits n Length: 13 pages Required knowledge: basic computer networks 10
Topic: Mobile devices Mobile device/app [9] Title: “A POI-Aware Power Saving Scheme for Ubiquitous Touring Service using Mobile Devices over the Cellular and Wi-Fi Hybrid Network” Analysis the energy consumption of location-based services n Proposes methodologies to reduce it n Length: 14 pages (either focus on the cache or the transmission details, choosing between Tables 3 and 4) Required knowledge: basic computer engineering 11
Topic: Mobile devices Mobile device/app [10] Title: “When Mice Consume Like Elephants: Instant Messaging Applications” 3G communication energy n Study of the usage characteristics and communication energy n consumption created by instant messaging applications Quantification of a application feature and a simple approach to n trade off energy and delay by bundling messages Thesis project of a former student of this course! n Length: 10 pages (Choose to focus on section 7 or 8) Required knowledge: basic computer networks 12
Power Topic: Power management management [11] Title: “Energy Management in Mobile Devices with the Cinder OS” New operating system techniques to control the energy spent n by individual applications Prototype analysis n Length: 14 pages (Sections 5.2, 5.4, 6.3, and 7 can be skipped) Required knowledge: operating systems 13
Topic: Storage Storage [12] Title: “A comprehensive study of energy efficiency and performance of flash-based SSD” Empirical comparison of performance and power consumption n of different SSD and a mechanical hard drive Introduces the operation of SSDs n Length: 12 pages Required knowledge: computer architecture 14
Data Topic: Data centres centres [13] Title: “Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Computing Environments” Introduces some energy saving techniques for datacenters n Shows how power-aware virtualisation can be used to reduce n the energy consumption of datacenters Length: 8 pages Required knowledge: basic distributed systems 15
Data Topic: Data centres centres [14] Title: “GreenSLAs for the energy-efficient management of data centres” Proposal for inclusion of energy footprint in the Service Level n Agreement (SLA) Length: 10 pages Required knowledge: basic computer networks 16
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