The energy saving and emission reduction in thermal plant is complex, with the open, non-equilibrium and interoperability features. In order to identifying the order parameters affecting plant system, a co-evolution model of energy saving and emission reduction in thermal power plant was built based on synergetic theory. According to the feathers of potential function based on mutation theory, ...

This paper investigates the power mode management problem for an IEEE 802.11-based mobile ad hoc network (MANET) that allows mobile hosts to tune to the power-saving (PS) mode. There are two major issues that need to be addressed in this problem: (a) wakeup prediction and (b) neighbor discovery. The former is to deliver buffered packets to a PS host at the right time when its radio is turned on...

In an effort to reduce the energy consumption of high performance computing centers, a number of new approaches have been developed in the last few years. One of these approaches is to switch hardware to lower power states in promising parallel application phases. A test cluster is designed with high performance computing nodes supporting multiple power saving mechanisms comparable to mobile de...

Predictors are used in many subfields of computer architecture to enhance performance. Accurate estimations of future system behavior allow to develop policies to improve system performance or reduce power consumption. These policies become more efficient if predictors are implemented in hardware and are able to provide quantified forecasts, i.e. providing more than binary forecasts. One of the...

IEEE 802.16 defines three types of power saving classes for supporting the sleep mode operations on mobile stations using different types of traffic. While related work has developed analytical models to evaluate the performance of the power saving operations in IEEE 802.16 networks, most of these endeavors are limited to the Poisson traffic model and hence their capability is limited in captur...

This study investigates the effects of gender on aggregate saving. We test the hypothesis that shifts in women’s relative income, which can affect their bargaining power within the household, have a discernible impact on household saving and, by extension, gross domestic saving, due to differing saving propensities by gender. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for a set of semi-indus...