Selection of an article
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While selecting the article you would like to present, keep
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Each article is assigned to a session (date)
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Articles are related to different topics
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Articles require different background knowledge
(specified also on the web page of the course)
Articles are assigned on the basis of the email timestamp
(fist arrived, first served)
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Topic overview
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The course articles are linked in the course website
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Seminar section:
http://www.ida.liu.se/~TDDD50/seminars
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The topics seminars will focus on are:
Life cycle
assessment
Data
centres
Networking
Power
management
Mobile devices
Storage
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Topic: Life Cycle Assessment
Life cycle
assessment
[1] Title: “Regional or Global WEEE Recycling. Where to Go?”
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Overview on the electronic waste problem, legislation,
standards and global initiatives
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A study of the electronic waste movements between importing
and exporting countries
Length: 12 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer architecture
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Topic: Life Cycle Assessment
Life cycle
assessment
[2] Title: “The Global Footprint of Mobile Communications: The
Ecological and Economic Perspective”
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Quantification of the total global carbon emissions due to the
cellular networks and future trend estimations given the mobile
data growth
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Which phase of the life cycle and which elements of the cellular
networks produce most CO2 emissions?
Length: 8 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer networks
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Data
centres
Topic: Data centres
[3] Title: “Demystifying Energy Consumption in Grids and Clouds”
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Analyses and discusses some accepted statements for energy
efficiency of servers in data centers
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Does the same machine type consume the same? How much
does an idle computer consume? Does virtualisation consume
more?
Length: 8 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer architecture
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Data
centres
Topic: Data centres
[4] Title: “An Energy Case for Hybrid Datacenters”
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Studies the possible benefits of mixing low power platforms with
high performance platforms to adjust the power consumption to
the workload
Length: 5 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer architecture
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Topic: Power management
Power
management
[5] Title: “A Simulation Study of a New Green BitTorrent”
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Explains the file sharing P2P BitTorrent protocol
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Presents improvement to reduce its energy consumption using
power management from the application perspective
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Analyses the resulting performance tradeoff
Length: 6 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer networks
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Topic: Power management
Power
management
[6] Title: “Parasol and GreenSwitch: Managing Datacenters
Powered by Renewable Energy”
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A prototype green datacenter built as a research platform
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It uses solar panels and battery as well as grid power as supply
Length: 12 pages (Sections 2 except "Managing workloads in
green datacenters" and 5.2 can be skipped)
Required knowledge: computer architecture
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Topic: Networking
Networking
[7] Title: “IEEE 802.3az: The Road to Energy Efficient Ethernet”
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Describes the new standard for energy efficient Ethernet to
make network interface cards move to sleep mode
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Analyses the environmental (energy) and monetary benefits
deriving from the standard
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Analyses the Quality of Service tradeoff resulting from the
standard application
Length: 7 pages
Required knowledge: computer networks
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Topic: Networking
Networking
[8] Title: “HetNets Powered by Renewable Energy: a Cost Effective
Paradigm for Sustainable Next Generation Cellular Networks”
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Case study: providing energy to a mobile operator network
using renewable sources
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Considers both environmental and monetary benefits
Length: 13 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer networks
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Topic: Mobile devices
Mobile devices
[9] Title: “Location-based services on mobile phones: minimizing
power consumption”
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Analysis the energy consumption of location-based services
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Proposes methodologies to reduce it
Length: 9 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer networks and architecture
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Topic: Mobile devices
Mobile devices
[10] Title: “When Mice Consume Like Elephants: Instant Messaging
Applications”
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3G communication energy
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Study of the usage characteristics and communication energy
consumption created by instant messaging applications
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Quantification of a application feature and a simple approach to
trade off energy and delay by bundling messages
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Thesis project of a former student of this course!
Length: 10 pages (Choose to focus on section 7 or 8)
Required knowledge: basic computer networks
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Topic: Power management
Power
management
[11] Title: “Energy Management in Mobile Devices with the Cinder
OS”
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New operating system techniques to control the energy spent
by individual applications
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Prototype analysis
Length: 14 pages (Sections 5.2, 5.4, 6.3, and 7 can be skipped)
Required knowledge: operating systems
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Topic: Storage
Storage
[12] Title: “A comprehensive study of energy efficiency and
performance of flash-based SSD”
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Empirical comparison of performance and power consumption
of different SSD and a mechanical hard drive
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Introduces the operation of SSDs
Length: 12 pages
Required knowledge: computer architecture
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Data
centres
Topic: Data centres
[13] Title: “Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Computing
Environments”
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Introduces some energy saving techniques for datacenters
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Shows how power-aware virtualisation can be used to reduce
the energy consumption of datacenters
Length: 8 pages
Required knowledge: basic distributed systems
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Data
centres
Topic: Data centres
[14] Title: “GreenSLAs for the energy-efficient management of data
centres”
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Proposal for inclusion of energy footprint in the Service Level
Agreement (SLA)
Length: 10 pages
Required knowledge: basic computer networks
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