Virtualization is often used in cloud computing platforms for its several advantages in
efficiently managing resources. However, virtualization raises certain additional challenges …

Accurate, fine-grained online energy estimation and accounting of mobile devices such as
smartphones is of critical importance to understanding and debugging the energy …

Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders
a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it would …

Virtualization facilitates the provision of flexible resources and improves energy efficiency
through the consolidation of virtualized servers into a smaller number of physical servers. As …

The power consumption of integrated circuits is one of the most problematic considerations
affecting the design of high-performance chips and portable devices. The study of power …

A method for generating an energy usage profile for a software program executed in a
computing device includes generating a call trace of an executed system call, identifying a …

Embodiments of the virtual machine power metering system and method measure the power
consumption of individual virtual machines. Power meter measurements for a physical host …

In the last decade, the rising trend in the popularity of smartphones motivated software
developers to increase application functionality. However, increasing application …

Mobile devices are placing energy efficiency in the hands of software developers.
Unfortunately, power modelling alone cannot identify significant power variations, nor is it …

Many research activities on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) need detailed performance
statistics about protocols, systems, and applications; however, current simulation tools and …