Energy efficiency and timeliness (ie, predictable job latency) are two essential–yet opposing–
concerns for embedded systems. Hard timing guarantees require conservative resource …

With the increasing popularity of services published online, energy consumption of services
computing systems is growing dramatically. Besides Quality of Service (QoS), energy …

Online service providers (OSPs) have Internet data centers in multiple geographical
locations in order to satisfy global user demand. Increased data centers consume a large …

In the past few years, scheduling for computer clusters has become a hot topic. The main
focus has been towards achieving better performance. It is true that this goal has been …

With the growing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) services on the internet, performance
has become an important issue in the design and optimisation of IoT service systems. This …

The complexity and requirements of web applications are increasing in order to meet more
sophisticated business models (web services and cloud computing, for instance). For this …

Many high-end computing systems use an extremely large number of power-hungry
commercial components to achieve high performance. Power reduction and energy …

Green computing is a hot topic that received a great amount of interest in the past few years.
This paper explores the benefits of Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DV/FS) and server …

With growing cost of electricity, the power management (PM) of server clusters has become
an important problem. However, most previous researchers only address the challenge in …

For modern computer systems, both performance and power consumption must be
considered to reduce the maintenance cost for quality of service guarantees. This paper …