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Large-scale charging stations become indispensable infrastructure to support the rapid proliferation of electric vehicles. Their operation modes have drawn great attention from both academia and industry. One promising mode called park-and-charge has been recently introduced. This new mode allows customers to park their electric vehicles at a parking lot, where the vehicles are charged during the...
The anticipated high electric vehicle (EV) penetration motivates many research efforts to alleviate the potential associated grid impact. However, few works discuss the crucial issue: quality of service (QoS) degradation caused by competing for charging resources. This issue arises due to the limitation on power supply and charging space that charging stations can usually provide. Our work studies...
Cloud service providers such as Microsoft and Google are beginning to power up their datacenters using multiple energy sources. To reduce cost and emission, they incorporate green energy sources into the power supply, while to improve service availability, they back up datacenters using traditional (usually brown) energy sources. However, challenge arises due to distinct characteristics of energy...
Demand response is an important feature and functionality of the future smart grid. Electric vehicles are recognized as a particularly promising resource for demand response given their high charging demand and flexibility in demand management. Recently, researchers begun to apply market-based solutions to electric vehicle demand response. A clear vision, however, remains elusive because existing...
The fast proliferation of cloud computing promotes the rapid development of large-scale commercial data centers. Tens or even hundreds of geographically distributed data centers have been deployed for better reliability and quality of services. This brings huge energy consumption for data centers. Previous research has proved that the geographical load balancing technique can achieve significant energy...
Component-based software systems with real-time requirements are often scheduled using processor reservation techniques. Such techniques have mainly evolved around hard real-time systems in which worst-case resource demands are considered for the reservations. In soft real-time systems, reserv- ing the processors based on the worst-case demands results in unnecessary over-allocations. In this paper,...
A data center is designed to have the capacity matching spike workload from a geographical region. This design concept comes with a significant waste of expense on power peak charged by the electrical grid, since workload fluctuations cause large variations in data center power demand. On the other hand, electric vehicles (EVs) have been emerging as major electricity consumers due to their large power...
The growing awareness about global climate change has boosted the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power systems and spurred efforts to accelerate the integration of renewable energy sources (e.g. wind and solar power) into the electrical grid. A fundamental difficulty here is that renewable energy sources are usually of high variability. The electrical grid must absorb this...
Variability and intermittency of green power is the main obstacle for its utilization. Different from other power consumption, due to the distributed nature, load balancing on geographical range can be used to dispatch computing tasks to the data centers with abundant renewable energy. The premise of this new strategy is: there is always abundant green power at some of the renewable power portfolio,...
While much work has addressed energy minimizing problem of real-time sequential tasks, little has been done for the parallel real-time task case. In this paper, based on level-packing, we study energy minimization problem for parallel task systems with discrete operation modes and under timing constraints. For tasks with fixed (variable) parallel degrees, we first formulate the problem as a 0-1 Integer...
While much work has addressed the energy-efficient scheduling problem for uniprocessor or multiprocessor systems, little has been done for multicore systems. We study the multicore architecture with a fixed number of cores partitioned into clusters (or islands), on each of which all cores operate at a common frequency. We develop algorithms to determine a schedule for real-time tasks to minimize the...
Energy conservation is an important issue in the design of embedded systems. Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) and Dynamic Power Management (DPM) are two widely used techniques for saving energy in such systems. In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing multi-resource energy consumption concerning both CPU and devices. A system is assumed to contain a fixed number of real-time tasks scheduled...
Partially Runtime-Reconfigurable (PRTR) FPGAs allow hardware tasks to be placed and removed dynamically at runtime in multi-tasking systems. Such systems need to not only support sharing of the resources in space, but also guarantee timely execution of the tasks. We present a novel online task placement algorithm under real-time constraints. The proposed algorithm uses a new metric to allocate tasks...
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