The development of biometric recognition technologies often requires large sets of biometric
data for training and evaluation purposes. The use of synthetically generated biometric …

Accurate energy demand prediction is very important for smart grids to conduct demand
response and stabilize the grids. In previous work, many prediction algorithms are proposed …

Home environments have a great potential of resource sharing and energy saving. More
and more home computers are running on an always-on basis (eg media-centers or file …

This paper reveals the power saving potential of P2P file sharing in two cases; popular and
unpopular files. For popular files, we derive, with regard to BitTorrent, an expression for the …

The heterogeneous nature of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks can be exploited to optimize a
wide range of applications. But this requires an accurate characterization of peer …

In this paper, we present a distributed approach for saving energy by sharing computing
load in home networks. In our approach, possibly thousands of home computers may …

Energy efficiency in the field of information and communication technology becomes
increasingly important due to the increase in energy costs and the desire to reduce CO 2 …

Already, hundreds of millions of PCs are found in homes, offering high computing capacity
without being adequately utilized. This paper reveals the potential for energy saving in future …

Home networks recently gain importance due to their development from pure internal
networks in form of an Ethernet LAN to converged networks integrating home, Internet, and …

P2P file-sharing systems have been suffering from file unavailability or poor download
speed due to lack of file replicas. As a result, to download rare files, users are typically …