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Full-Text Articles in Systems Architecture
Improving The Programmability Of Networked Energy Systems, Noman Bashir
Improving The Programmability Of Networked Energy Systems, Noman Bashir
Doctoral Dissertations
Global warming and climate change have underscored the need for designing sustainable energy systems. Sustainable energy systems, e.g., smart grids, green data centers, differ from the traditional systems in significant ways and present unique challenges to system designers and operators. First, intermittent renewable energy resources power these systems, which break the notion of infinite, reliable, and controllable power supply. Second, these systems come in varying sizes, spanning over large geographical regions. The control of these dispersed and diverse systems raises scalability challenges. Third, the performance modeling and fault detection in sustainable energy systems is still an active research area. Finally, …
Scaling Down The Energy Cost Of Connecting Everyday Objects To The Internet, Mohammad Rostami
Scaling Down The Energy Cost Of Connecting Everyday Objects To The Internet, Mohammad Rostami
Doctoral Dissertations
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises new opportunities for better monitoring and control of thousands of objects and sensors in households and industrial applications. The viability of large-scale IoT is, however, still a challenge given that the most widely known options for connecting everyday objects, i.e. duty-cycled active radios such as WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee, are power-hungry and increase the cost of deployment and maintenance of the connected devices. The main argument of this thesis is that passive radios that use backscatter communication, which has been used primarily for RFIDs, can fill this gap as an ultra-low power replacement for …
Hybrid Black-Box Solar Analytics And Their Privacy Implications, Dong Chen
Hybrid Black-Box Solar Analytics And Their Privacy Implications, Dong Chen
Doctoral Dissertations
The aggregate solar capacity in the U.S. is rising rapidly due to continuing decreases in the cost of solar modules. For example, the installed cost per Watt (W) for residential photovoltaics (PVs) decreased by 6X from 2009 to 2018 (from $8/W to $1.2/W), resulting in the installed aggregate solar capacity increasing 128X from 2009 to 2018 (from 435 megawatts to 55.9 gigawatts). This increasing solar capacity is imposing operational challenges on utilities in balancing electricity's real-time supply and demand, as solar generation is more stochastic and less predictable than aggregate demand. To address this problem, both academia and utilities have …
Adaft: A Resource-Efficient Framework For Adaptive Fault-Tolerance In Cyber-Physical Systems, Ye Xu
Adaft: A Resource-Efficient Framework For Adaptive Fault-Tolerance In Cyber-Physical Systems, Ye Xu
Doctoral Dissertations
Cyber-physical systems frequently have to use massive redundancy to meet application requirements for high reliability. While such redundancy is required, it can be activated adaptively, based on the current state of the controlled plant. Most of the time the physical plant is in a state that allows for a lower level of fault-tolerance. Avoiding the continuous deployment of massive fault-tolerance will greatly reduce the workload of CPSs. In this dissertation, we demonstrate a software simulation framework (AdaFT) that can automatically generate the sub-spaces within which our adaptive fault-tolerance can be applied. We also show the theoretical benefits of AdaFT, and …
On Leveraging Multi-Path Transport In Mobile Networks, Yeon-Sup Lim
On Leveraging Multi-Path Transport In Mobile Networks, Yeon-Sup Lim
Doctoral Dissertations
Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) is a new transport protocol that enables mobile devices to simultaneously use several physical paths through multiple network interfaces. MPTCP is particularly useful for mobile devices, which usually have multiple wireless interfaces such as IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), cellular (3G/LTE), and Bluetooth. However, applying MPTCP to mobile devices introduces new concerns since they operate in harsh environments with resource constraints due to intermittent path availability and limited power supply. The goal of this thesis is to resolve these problems so as to be able to practically deploy MPTCP in mobile devices. The first part of the thesis develops …
Content Placement As A Key To A Content-Dominated, Highly Mobile Internet, Abhigyan Sharma
Content Placement As A Key To A Content-Dominated, Highly Mobile Internet, Abhigyan Sharma
Doctoral Dissertations
Most of the Internet traffic is content, and most of the Internet connected hosts are mobile. Our work focuses on the design of infrastructure services needed to support such a content-dominated, highly mobile Internet. In the design of these services, three sets of decisions arise frequently: (1) Content placment for selecting the locations where a content is placed, (2) request redirection for selecting the location where a particular request is served from and (3) network routing for selecting the physical path between clients and the services they are accessing. Our central thesis is that content placement is a powerful factor, …
A Platform For Scalable Low-Latency Analytics Using Mapreduce, Boduo Li
A Platform For Scalable Low-Latency Analytics Using Mapreduce, Boduo Li
Doctoral Dissertations
Today, the ability to process "big data" has become crucial to the information needs of many enterprise businesses, scientific applications, and governments. Recently, there have been increasing needs of processing data that is not only "big" but also "fast". Here "fast data" refers to high-speed real-time and near real-time data streams, such as Twitter feeds, search query streams, click streams, impressions, and system logs. To handle both historical data and real-time data, many companies have to maintain multiple systems. However, recent real-world case studies show that maintaining multiple systems cause not only code duplication, but also intensive manual work to …
Robust Mobile Data Transport: Modeling, Measurements, And Implementation, Yung-Chih Chen
Robust Mobile Data Transport: Modeling, Measurements, And Implementation, Yung-Chih Chen
Doctoral Dissertations
Advances in wireless technologies and the pervasive influence of multi-homed devices have significantly changed the way people use the Internet. These changes of user behavior and the evolution of multi-homing technologies have brought a huge impact to today's network study and provided new opportunities to improve mobile data transport. In this thesis, we investigate challenges related to human mobility, with emphases on network performance at both system level and user level. More specifically, we seek to answer the following two questions: 1) How to model user mobility in the networks and use the model for network provisioning? 2) Is it …
Designing Efficient And Accurate Behavior-Aware Mobile Systems, Abhinav Parate
Designing Efficient And Accurate Behavior-Aware Mobile Systems, Abhinav Parate
Doctoral Dissertations
The proliferation of sensors on smartphones, tablets and wearables has led to a plethora of behavior classification algorithms designed to sense various aspects of individual user's behavior such as daily habits, activity, physiology, mobility, sleep, emotional and social contexts. This ability to sense and understand behaviors of mobile users will drive the next generation of mobile applications providing services based on the users' behavioral patterns. In this thesis, we investigate ways in which we can enhance and utilize the understanding of user behaviors in such applications. In particular, we focus on identifying the key challenges in the following three aspects …
Reliable And Efficient Multithreading, Tongping Liu
Reliable And Efficient Multithreading, Tongping Liu
Doctoral Dissertations
The advent of multicore architecture has increased the demand for multithreaded programs. It is notoriously far more challenging to write parallel programs correctly and efficiently than sequential ones because of the wide range of concurrency errors and performance problems. In this thesis, I developed a series of runtime systems and tools to combat concurrency errors and performance problems of multithreaded programs. The first system, Dthreads, automatically ensures determinism for unmodified C/C++ applications using the pthreads library without requiring programmer intervention and hardware support. Dthreads greatly simplifies the understanding and debugging of multithreaded programs. Dthreads often matches or even exceeds the …