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5G infrastructures supporting end-user and operational services: The 5G-XHaul architectural perspective
(2016)We propose an optical-wireless 5G infrastructure offering converged fronthauling/backhauling functions to support both operational and end-user cloud services. A layered architectural structure required to efficiently ... -
An active sunlight redirection system for daylight enhancement beyond the perimeter zone
(2017)Over the past years, extensive research has been carried out in the creation of working environments that utilize natural light as their primary source of illumination. Transferring glare-free daylight into the core of the ... -
Demo: Enabling asynchronous awakenings in wireless sensor networks towards removing duty-cycle barriers
(2017)Typical wireless sensor network applications follow duty-cycle mechanisms, yielding important energy savings by reducing the power consumption of idle listening. However, this approach still dictates predefined cycles of ... -
Design and development of innovative physics simulations and teaching materials for the learning of the concept of energy
(2008)This paper describes an innovative educational approach for the teaching of the concept of energy, by the use of 12 simulations developed with the educational software "Modellus". The concept of energy is a very abstract ... -
Detecting energy-efficient central nodes for cooperative caching in wireless sensor networks
(2013)The deployment of wireless sensor networks in many application areas like environment control, target tracking in battlefields, requires an optimization to the communication among the sensors so as to serve data in short ... -
Dynamic operation of daylighting and shading systems: A literature review
(2016)The primary goal of dynamic building envelopes is to meet and balance antagonistic performance criteria utilizing automatic operation. As opposed to static systems, automated shading and daylighting systems are increasingly ... -
Energy and communication aware task mapping for MPSoCs
(2018)Minimizing energy consumption and network load is a major challenge for network-on-chip (NoC) based multi-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs). Efficient task and core mapping can greatly reduce the overall energy consumption ... -
An energy-efficient and error-resilient server ecosystem exceeding conservative scaling limits
(2018)The explosive growth of Internet-connected devices will soon result in a flood of generated data, which will increase the demand for network bandwidth as well as compute power to process the generated data. Consequently, ... -
Energy-efficient distributed clustering in wireless sensor networks
(2010)The deployment of wireless sensor networks in many application areas requires self-organization of the network nodes into clusters. Clustering is a network management technique, since it creates a hierarchical structure ... -
Environmental aspects of fiber crops cultivation and use
(2015)Bioenergy and biomaterials from fiber crops are regarded as promising substitutes for conventional ones, considering the growing concern about oil and other non-renewable resources depletion and the environmental impacts ... -
Estimating the benefits of increasing the recycling rate of lamps from the domestic sector: Methodology, opportunities and case study
(2020)The scope of this paper is to identify the benefits of lamp recycling from the domestic sector. Data related to the recycled lamps was obtained from two recycling companies and were compared to those related to the waste ... -
Evaluation of seismic slope displacement techniques in term of engineering criteria and financial restrictions
(2021)Whether a slope is naturally occurring or constructed, its stability is a critical situation. During the designing part of a construction, engineers can use a variety of tools in order to dimension slope stability and ... -
Examining the impact of daylighting and the corresponding lighting controls to the users of office buildings
(2020)Daylight utilization significantly contributes to energy savings in office buildings. However, daylight integration requires careful design so as to include variations in daylight availability and maintain a balance between ... -
Fuzzy control system for smart energy management in residential buildings based on environmental data
(2021)Modern energy automation solutions and demand response applications rely on load profiles to monitor and manage electricity consumption effectively. The introduction of smart control systems capable of handling additional ... -
Greening the Airwaves with Collaborating Mobile Network Operators
(2016)Base station sharing is currently considered one of the most promising solutions for reducing the energy consumption costs of cellular networks. This paper presents a game theoretic framework for the study of such cooperative ... -
Harvesting daylight with LED or T5 fluorescent lamps? The role of dimming
(2017)While the efficiency of the Lighting Emitting Diodes (LED) is increasing and new installations are being implemented, their control due to the adoption of daylight harvesting systems, hasn't been sufficiently examined yet, ... -
The impacts of a dynamic sunlight redirection system on the energy balance of office buildings
(2017)The aim of this work consisted in investigating the potential of an advanced dynamic daylighting system, designed to provide higher work-plane illuminance levels deeper into the space and assess its impact on the building's ... -
An integrated urban water management scheme: From source to tap
(2018)Urban water systems have great potential in water and energy saving. A thorough water losses component assessment can reveal this potential and drive utilities into a proper water management scheme towards a more sustainable ... -
Interpolating the air for optimizing wireless data broadcast
(2007)Energy conservation and access efficiency are two fundamental though competing goals in broadcast wireless networks. To tackle the energy penalty from sequential searching, the interleaving of index with data items has ... -
Medium access games: The impact of energy constraints
(2011)We consider random medium access schemes for devices that support sleep modes, i.e. turning off electronic compartments for energy saving. Due to hardware limitations, sleep mode transitions cannot occur at the medium ...