Nowadays, reducing memory energy has become one of the top priorities of many embedded systems designers. Given the power, cost, performance and real-time advantages of Scratch-Pad Memories (SPMs), it is not surprising that SPM is becoming a common form of SRAM in embedded processors today. In this paper, we focus on heuristic methods for SPMs careful management in order to reduce memory energy...

Modeling, Predicting and Reducing Energy Consumption in Resource Restricted Computers

When the environmental conditions are stable, a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application may sense and process very similar or constant data values for long durations. This is a common behavior of WSN nodes that can be exploited for reducing their power consumption. This study combines two orthogonal techniques to reduce the energy dissipation of the processor component of the sensor n...

In this paper, design and optimization procedures are developed for a conventional extractive distillation sequence and a thermally coupled extractive distillation scheme. The proposedmethodologies detect the optimal values of the design variables in order to guarantee theminimumenergy consumption. It was found that the optimumenergy consumption can be related to the minimum total annual operat...

We present the design and evaluation of two forms of power management schemes that reduce the energy consumption of networks. The first is based on putting network components to sleep during idle times, reducing energy consumed in the absence of packets. The second is based on adapting the rate of network operation to the offered workload, reducing the energy consumed when actively processing p...

Most power reduction techniques have focused on gating the clock to unused functional units to minimize static power consumption, while system level optimizations have been used to deal with dynamic power consumption. After these techniques are applied, register file power consumption becomes a dominant factor in the energy consumption. This paper proposes a power-aware reconfiguration mechanis...

Network optimization concerned with operational traffic management in existing data networks is typically oriented towards either maximizing throughput in congested networks while providing for adequate transmission quality, or towards balancing the traffic so as to maintain possibly large free capacity for carrying additional (new) traffic. Nowadays, the reduction of power consumption is a new...

L ately, the proposed cap and trade policy, carbon taxes, and other regulations designed to lower energy consumption and emission have garnered a lot of buzz. Much of this publicity implies that “being green” is not just responsible but also fun and profitable. The literature on green hospitals touts the many benefits that may accrue as a result of this effort, including fewer medical errors, b...

energy and mass transfer investigations in thermal processing of fruits serve as a breakthrough in the design and scale up of drying systems. diffusivity characteristics and specific energy consumption for drying of fig fruit in a laboratory scale microwave dryer were assessed. several intervals for microwave power intensity including 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 w g-1, and 6 levels of power on-off ...

Recent rapid development of wireless communication technologies and portable mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and wireless sensors bring the best out of mobile computing, particularly Mobile Ad-hoc Sensor Networks (MASNETs). MASNETs are types of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) that are designed to consider energy in mind because they have severe resource constraints due to their lack...