This paper proposes a methodology to estimate the maximum revenue that can be generated by a company that operates a high-capacity storage device to buy or sell electricity on the day-ahead electricity market. The methodology exploits the Dynamic Programming (DP) principle and is specified for hydrogen-based storage devices that use electrolysis to produce hydrogen and fuel cells to generate el...

In this position paper, we propose the concept of Elastic HTML5, which enables web applications to offload workload using cloudbased web workers and cloud-based storage for mobile devices. Elastic HTML5 is a collection of software components and functions in for a web runtime agent (e.g., web browser); this includes components and methods to create and manage web workers in the cloud so as to a...

The main bottlenecks limiting the practical applications of current magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technology are its low storage density and high writing energy consumption. Although a number of proposals have been reported for voltage-controlled memory device in recent years, none of them simultaneously satisfy the ...

NAND flash memory based storage devices use Flash Translation Layer (FTL) to translate logical addresses of I/O requests to corresponding flash memory addresses. Mobile storage devices typically have RAM with constrained size, thus lack in memory to keep the whole mapping table. Therefore, mapping tables are partially retrieved from NAND flash on demand, causing random-read performance degradat...

Relative fitness modeling is a new approach for predicting the performance and resource utilization of a workload when running on a particular storage device. In contrast with conventional device models, which expect deviceindependent workload characteristics as input, a relative fitness model makes predictions based on characteristics measured on a specific other device. As such, relative fitn...

LVM is a method of allocating disk space on a disk storage devices. Which is more flexible than conventional ones. Logical Volume Manager can usually stripe, mirror or otherwise combine disk partitions to bigger virtual partitions which can be easily moved, resized or manipulated in different ways while in use. Volume Management is one form of disk storage virtualization used in Operating Syste...

Relative fitness modeling is a new approach for predicting the performance and resource utilization of a workload when running on a particular storage device. In contrast with conventional device models, which expect deviceindependent workload characteristics as input, a relative fitness model makes predictions based on characteristics measured on a specific other device. As such, relative fitn...

This paper proposes a new storage model, device transparency, in which users view and manage their entire data collection from any of their devices, even from disconnected storage-limited devices holding only a subset of the entire collection.