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Most data intensive applications often access only a few fields of the objects they are operating on. Since NVM provides fast, byte-addressable access to durable memory, it is possible to access various fields of an object stored in NVM…
A spurt of progress in wireless power transfer (WPT) and mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to enhance the quality and productivity of manufacturing. Scheduling in such a…
We study how to mitigate the effects of energy attacks in the batteryless Internet of Things (IoT). Battery-less IoT devices live and die with ambient energy, as they use energy harvesting to power their operation. They are employed in a…
The rising demand for sustainable IoT has promoted the adoption of battery-free devices intermittently powered by ambient energy for sensing. However, the intermittency poses significant challenges in sensing data collection. Despite recent…
Monitoring heterogeneous infrastructures and applications is essential to cope with user requirements properly, but it still lacks enhancements. The well-known state-of-the-art methods and tools do not support seamless monitoring of…
The Internet-of-Things requires end-nodes with ultra-low-power always-on capability for a long battery lifetime, as well as high performance, energy efficiency, and extreme flexibility to deal with complex and fast-evolving near-sensor…
The Internet of Things describes a network of physical devices interacting and producing vast streams of sensor data. At present there are a number of general challenges which exist while developing solutions for use cases involving the…
Our society becomes increasingly dependent on wireless communications. The tremendous growth in the number and type of wirelessly connected devices in a combination with the dropping cost for performing cyberattacks create new challenges…
This paper presents an energy-optimal hybrid control framework for thermal management of heat-pump battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The controller coordinates the compressor, coolant pumps, and cabin blower across the coupled refrigerant,…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of minimizing the sum of energy cost and thermal discomfort cost in a long-term time horizon for a sustainable smart home with a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) load. Specifically,…
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology uses small and cost-effective sensors for various applications, such as Industrial IoT. However, these sensor nodes are powered by fixed-size batteries, which creates a trade-off between network…
The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is increasing exponentially, and it is environmentally and economically unsustainable to power all these devices with batteries. The key alternative is energy harvesting, but battery-less IoT…
Efficient network packet processing increasingly demands dynamic, adaptive, and run-time resizable match table allocation to handle the diverse and heterogeneous nature of traffic patterns and rule sets. Achieving this flexibility at high…
To fight climate change, new "green" technology are emerging, most of them using electricity as a power source. Among the solutions, Electric Vehicles (EVs) represent a central asset in the future transport system. EVs require a complex…
The Internet of Things (IoT) enables a wide variety of applications where large sensor networks are deployed in remote areas without power grid access. Thus, the sensor nodes often run on batteries, whose replacement and disposal represent…
The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…
Motivated by the huge disparity between the limited battery capacity of user devices and the ever-growing energy demands of modern mobile apps, we propose INFv. It is the first offloading system able to cache, migrate and dynamically…
The Internet of Things (IoT) sparks a whole new world of embedded applications. Most of these applications are based on deeply embedded systems that have to operate on limited or unreliable sources of energy, such as batteries or energy…