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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How green is IP-telephony?
With constantly increasing costs of energy, we ask ourselves what we can say about the energy efficiency of existing VoIP systems. To answer that question, we gather information a...
Salman Abdul Baset, Joshua Reich, Jan Janak, Pavel...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How internet concepts and technologies can help green and smarten the electrical grid
Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. The nextgeneration grid, often called the `smart grid,' will featur...
Srinivasan Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Breathe to stay cool: adjusting cell sizes to reduce energy consumption
Reducing the energy consumption of a wireless cellular network is an important and urgent problem. This paper studies the effect of cell sizes on the energy consumed by the networ...
Sourjya Bhaumik, Girija J. Narlikar, Subhendu Chat...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
EyePhone: activating mobile phones with your eyes
As smartphones evolve researchers are studying new techniques to ease the human-mobile interaction. We propose EyePhone, a novel "hand-free" interfacing system capable o...
Emiliano Miluzzo, Tianyu Wang, Andrew T. Campbell
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Shipping to streaming: is this shift green?
Streaming movies over the Internet has become increasingly popular in recent years as an alternative to mailing DVDs to a customer. In this paper we investigate the environmental-...
Anand Seetharam, Manikandan Somasundaram, Donald F...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
PhoneNet: a phone-to-phone network for group communication within an administrative domain
Te-Yuan Huang, Kok-Kiong Yap, Ben Dodson, Monica S...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Greening backbone networks: reducing energy consumption by shutting off cables in bundled links
In backbone networks, the line cards that drive the links between neighboring routers consume a large amount of energy. Since these networks are typically overprovisioned, selecti...
Will Fisher, Martin Suchara, Jennifer Rexford
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The case for crowd computing
We introduce and motivate crowd computing, which combines mobile devices and social interactions to achieve large-scale distributed computation. An opportunistic network of mobile...
Derek Gordon Murray, Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft, S...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Side channel: bits over interference
Interference is a critical issue in wireless communications. In a typical multiple-user environment, different users may severely interfere with each other. Coordination among use...
Kaishun Wu, Haoyu Tan, Yunhuai Liu, Jin Zhang, Qia...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The spaces between us: setting and maintaining boundaries in wireless spectrum access
Guardbands are designed to insulate transmissions on adjacent frequencies from mutual interference. As more devices in a given area are packed into orthogonal wireless channels, c...
Lei Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng