efficiency and energy
Green IT - how CIOs can help
Comment Meanwhile both the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the IEA (International Energy Agency) say efficiency improvements will help reduce the emissions associated with energy production and consumption. [04 Sep 2008]
Routing Protocols for Self-Organizing Hierarchical Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
White Paper Alternative routing metrics that account for energy efficiency are also considered briefly, and the effect on user performance and system capacity are given for a specific example. This paper focuses on the design and evaluation of routing... [02 Sep 2008]
IBM Solutions for Energy Efficient and Environmentally Responsible Green Initiatives
White Paper Until recently, the result is that the demand for better performance and higher profits took precedence over efficiency. This usually meant costly investments in hardware upgrades and server capacity. [21 Aug 2008]
Improving Energy Efficiency by Making DRAM Less Randomly Accessed
White Paper Existing techniques manage power for the main memory by passively monitoring the memory traffic, and based on which, predict when to power down and into which low power state to transition. However, passively monitoring the memory traffic can be... [11 Aug 2008]
Energy-Efficient MAC-PHY Resource Management With Guaranteed QoS in Wireless OFDM Networks
White Paper Meanwhile, the power efficiency and system performance are significantly improved compared to the traditional systems where resources are allocated based on a strict layering architecture. The proposed algorithm jointly optimizes the bandwidth and... [10 Aug 2008]
Dell hits carbon neutral target
News The target was met through improved energy efficiency at Dell's own facilities combined with green electricity purchases and investments in wind power in the US, China and India totalling 645 million kWh and creating savings of 400,000 metric tons... [06 Aug 2008]
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Ethernet-Connected Devices: A Proposal for Proxying
White Paper If not for the network connectivity, most of these devices could be asleep the majority of the time, with greater energy savings resulting. Saving energy can be achieved by the addition of a proxying capability, which is defined as "An entity that... [04 Aug 2008]
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Ethernet: Adaptive Link Rate Proposal
White Paper There is a major push for chip, component, and system vendors to improve the energy efficiency of their products. Enabling Ethernet to quickly and adaptively set its link rate in response to link utilization during full-power operation can yield... [04 Aug 2008]
A QoS Evaluation Testbed for MAC Protocols for Wireless Camera Networks
White Paper The testbed characterizes a MAC protocol on the basis of the following three criteria: TIme-Bounded Parameter-Estimation Accuracy (TIBPEA), latency, and energy efficiency. Existing QoS metrics can only be used for wireless sensor networks when the... [04 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News The facility is a part of IBM's Project Big Green, an initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency within data centres. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for... [04 Aug 2008]
A Framework for Cross-Layer Design of Energy-Efficient Communication With QoS Provisioning in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
White Paper Energy efficiency and connection quality depend on mechanisms that span several communication layers due to the existing co-channel interference among competing flows that must reuse the limited radio spectrum. [04 Aug 2008]
QoS Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication
White Paper Energy efficiency is an important issue for mobile computers since they must rely on their batteries. The paper has designed and implemented an energy-efficient architecture and MAC protocol for wireless multimedia traffic. [04 Aug 2008]
Reducing Data Centre Costs and Simultaneously Implementing Environmental Policy
White Paper What are UK companies doing about energy efficiency? In Q1 this year, analyst IDL to profiled decision makers with responsibility for environmental policy and Data Centre operations to better understand how the need for a more energy-efficient... [31 Jul 2008]
Aventine Renewable Energy Uses Document Management to Automate Financial Processes, Increase Efficiency, and Meet Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements
White Paper For several years Aventine had been generating PDF invoices via their Oracle ERP system and filing them daily in a single file folder. Document Locator has done everything Aventine wanted and more. Having 200,000+ invoices filed only by date... [18 Jul 2008]
Energy-Aware and QoS Routing in 6LoWPAN Mesh Networks
White Paper Almost all of the routing protocols considered energy efficiency as the ultimate objective since energy is a very scarce resource for sensor node. A routing protocol is needed for the mesh topology approach, which must take into account the very... [18 Jul 2008]
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