Smallholder agriculture in the information age: Limits and opportunities

M Zheleva, P Bogdanov, DS Zois, W Xiong… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent projections by the United Nations show that the food production needs to double by
2050 in order to meet the nutrition demand of the world's growing population. A key enabler …

Energy-optimal collaborative file distribution in wired networks

K Verma, G Rizzo, A Fernández Anta… - Peer-to-peer networking …, 2017 - Springer
The impact of the ICT sector in worldwide power consumption is an increasing concern,
motivating the research community to devote an important effort to define novel energy …

Energy saving through intelligent coordination among daily used fixed and mobile devices

R Khan, SU Khan - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Network end-user devices such as laptops and desktop PCs are often left powered ON 24/7
while they remain idle most of the time. The main reason behind this is maintaining network …

[HTML][HTML] Design and implementation of Ad-hoc collaborative proxying scheme for reducing network energy waste

R Khan, SU Khan - Digital Communications and Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Network devices are equipped with low power states but they are rarely activated due to
their inability of maintaining network connectivity. Recently, Network Connectivity Proxy …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal Time Allocation between Idle and Active Time

M Weber, LD Gonen, S Westreich, U Spiegel - Appl. Econ. Financ, 2017 - core.ac.uk
Idle time is an essential and valuable factor in the production of any service. While idle time
is necessary and helpful for efficient and effective utilization of time, it also has a negative …

Managing access to data on a client device during low-power state

GJ Boss, G Cohen, JR Kozloski, CA Pickover… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Disclosed is a novel system and method for maintaining computing functionality when a
client device must be used in a low-power state. More particularly, when a client device is …

Managing access to data on a client device during low-power state

GJ Boss, G Cohen, JR Kozloski, CA Pickover… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Disclosed is a novel system and method for maintaining computing functionality when a
client device must be used in a low-power state. More particularly, when a client device is …

Competitive Power Down Methods in Green Computing

J Andro-Vasko - 2017 - search.proquest.com
For the power-down problem one considers a device which has states OFF, ON, and a
number of intermediate states. The state of the device can be switched at any time. In the …

[PDF][PDF] Network Presence Proxy: Concept and Background Study

C Karls - academia.edu
Billions of dollars of electricity are being used to keep idle or unused network hosts fully
powered-on only to maintain their network presence. Network Connectivity Proxy (NCP) …

Towards modeling vehicular networks with power-performance trade-offs

S Sankaran, M Gupta - 2017 IEEE International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular networks are gaining increasing significance due to real-time communication and
decision-making capabilities of vehicles and their interaction with road-side units. Power …