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From Geographically Dispersed Data Centers Towards Hierarchical Edge Computing, Abbas Kiani
From Geographically Dispersed Data Centers Towards Hierarchical Edge Computing, Abbas Kiani
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Internet scale data centers are generally dispersed in different geographical regions. While the main goal of deploying the geographically dispersed data centers is to provide redundancy, scalability and high availability, the geographic dispersity provides another opportunity for efficient employment of global resources, e.g., utilizing price-diversity in electricity markets or utilizing locational diversity in renewable power generation. In other words, an efficient approach for geographical load balancing (GLB) across geo-dispersed data centers not only can maximize the utilization of green energy but also can minimize the cost of electricity. However, due to the different costs and disparate environmental impacts of the …
Advanced Intelligent Control And Optimization For Cardiac Pacemaker Systems, Wei Shi
Advanced Intelligent Control And Optimization For Cardiac Pacemaker Systems, Wei Shi
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Since cardiovascular diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the developed countries and the number one cause of death in the United States, their accurate diagnosis and effective treatment via advanced cardiac pacemaker systems have become very important. Intelligent control and optimization of the pacemakers are significant research subjects. Serious but infrequently occurring arrhythmias are difficult to diagnose. The use of electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform only cannot exactly distinguish between deadly abnormalities and temporary arrhythmias. Thus, this work develops a new method based on frequency entrainment to analyze pole-zero characteristics of the phase error between abnormal ECG and entrained …