Title: Green Computing and Communication Systems
Overview: Energy, with its intimate linkages to environment and economy, is perhaps the single most important challenge facing our planet. Moreover, Information Technology (IT) - our computing, communication, sensing, and control systems - has emerged both as a part of the problem with a large worldwide IT carbon footprint, as well as a part of the solution by enabling more efficient use of energy in other human-cyber-physical systems at different scales, such as building, cars, electrical grHomeid, and water networks. This course explores technologies that span these two complementary aspects of IT systems in energy sustainability:
Designing Green IT Systems
IT for Making Other Systems Green
Design principles and challenges in creating energy-efficient computing and communication systems at different scales:
Computing, communications, and sensing/actuation for making various energy-consuming human-cyber-physical systems more efficient:
Please select a topic relevant to the course, and do an on-line survey article that should include a clear description of the topic, the historical development, current state of the art, emerging approaches, references, and pointers for further reading. Think of it like a good encyclopedia article. A good model would be the articles found in Scholarpedia, which is like Wikipedia but curated. Wikipedia articles are a good model in terms of style, in terms of content they are often fluffy. Below are some suggested topics, but you are free to propose your own. In any event, you must get my approval for the topic as I would like to have multiple students working on similar topics. Your survey would be an on-line one, in the form of a web page (with sub-pages if needed). While you can create and host the web page anywhere, you may consider using something convenient, such as Google Sites or some other hosting service. You could even simply create a page on Wikipedia (assuming one doesn't already exist).