Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Energy efficiency has become one of the top design criteria for current computing systems.
The dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has been widely adopted by laptop …

Many scheduling paradigms have been studied for real-time applications and real-time
communication network. Among them, the most commonly used paradigms include priority …

Software power estimation of CPUs is a central concern for energy efficiency and resource
management in data centers. Over the last few years, a dozen of ad hoc power models have …

Leveraging power consumption models in software systems can achieve easy deployment
of low-cost, high-availability power monitoring in cloud datacenters that are usually large …

Middleboxes are prevalent in today's enterprise and data center networks. Network function
virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to replace dedicated hardware middleboxes …

Driven by the increasing power consumption of datacenters, the industry is focusing more on
water cooling for improving the energy efficiency. Using warm water to cool servers has …

Warm water cooling has been regarded as a promising method to improve the energy
efficiency of water-cooled datacenters. In warm water-cooling systems, hot spots occur as a …

The design and the deployment of energy-efficient distributed systems is a challenging task,
which requires software engineers to consider all the layers of a system, from hardware to …

The ever-increasing power consumption of datacenters has eaten up a large portion of their
profit. One possible solution is to charge datacenter users for their actual power usage …