Conference Papers

Note: The below copies of the papers presented at IGSC 2020 are provided to the conference attendees during the conference for their convenience. These papers are the original submissions to IGSC; therefore, please do NOT reference these papers. Final, referenceable manuscripts will be published in Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) journal in the near future.

VLSI Design

• LAHAF: Low-power, Area-efficient, and High-performance Approximate Full Adder-based on Static CMOS, Seyed Erfan Fatemieh, Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad, University of Isfahan, Isfahan IRAN. Concise paper

• ImpediLong: A Long Lasting Wireless Wearable Bio-impedance Sensor Node, Kanika Sagar Dheman, Manuel Eggimann, Philipp Mayer, Simone Schürle, Michele Magno. ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland. Concise paper

• Line-coalescing DRAM Cache, Qian Zhang, Xiufeng Sui, Rui Hou, Lixin Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA. (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• Intf-HybridMem: Page Migration in Hybrid Memories Considering Cost Efficiency, Rodrigo Moura, Lizandro de Souza Oliveira, Guilherme Bayer Schneider, Mauricio Lima Pilla, Adenauer Correa Yamin, Renata Hax Sander Reiser, Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, RS Brazil. Regular paper

• Quantum Circuit Designs of Carry Lookahead Adder Optimized for T-count and Qubits, Himanshu Thapliyal, Edgard Muñoz-Coreas, Vladislav Khalus, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. Regular paper

Architecture and System Level Optimization - I

• An FPU Design Template to Optimize the Accuracy-efficiency-area Trade-off, Davide Zoni, Andrea Galimberti, William Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• Performance and Energy Consumption of a Gram-Schmidt process for Vector Orthogonalization on a Processor Integrated GPU, Thomas Jakobs, Gudula Rünger, Lukas Reinhardt, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Sachsen GERMANY. Regular paper

• AWARe-Wi: A Jamming-Aware Reconfigurable Wireless Interconnection Using Adversarial Learning for Multichip Systems, M Meraj Ahmed, Amlan Ganguly, Abhishek Vashist, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• Novel Flexible Buffering Architectures for 3D-NoCs, Mostafa Abdelrehim, Amin Sarihi, Ahmad Patooghy, Awny El-Mohandes, Abdel-Hameed Badawy, Fayez Gebali, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM, USA. Regular paper

Embedded, IoT and Fog Computing - I

• Automatic Identification and Hardware Implementation of a Resource-constrained Power Model for Embedded Systems, Luca Cremona, William Fornaciari, Davide Zoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Regular paper

• Phone-based Ambient Temperature Sensing Using Opportunistic Crowdsensing and Machine Learning, Amee Trivedi, Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, Joseph Bred, Prashant Shenoy, Jay Taneja, David Irwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• FixM: Code Generation of Fixed Point Mathematical Functions, Daniele Cattaneo, Michele Chiari, Gabriele Magnani, Nicola Fossati, Stefano Cherubin, Giovanni Agosta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Regular paper

• FEETINGS: Framework for Energy Efficiency Testing to Improve eNvironmental Goal of the Software, Javier Mancebo, Coral Calero, Félix Garcia, María Angeles Moraga, Ignacio Garcia-Rodriguez de Guzmán, Universidad Castilla la Mancha, SPAIN. Concise paper

• PortAuthority: Integrating Energy Efficiency Analysis into Software Development Cycles via Dynamic Program Analysis , Blake W. Ford, Ziliang Zong, Texas State University San Marcos, TX, USA. Concise paper

Panel 1: Towards Self-powered Embedded Computing Systems

Moderator: Sebastian Bader (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)

Panelists: Ali Muhtaroglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Geoff Merrett (University of Southampton, UK); Shad Roundy (University of Utah, USA)

Cloud and High-performance Computing

• NASCon: Network-aware Server Consolidation for Server-centric Wireless Datacenters, Sayed Ashraf Mamun, Amlan Ganguly, Panos P. Markopoulos, Minseok Kwon, Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA. (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• Improving Energy Efficiency in Colocation Data Centers for Demand Response, Ce Chi, Fa Zhang, Kaixuan Ji, Avinab Marahatta, Zhiyong Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA. Regular paper

• Utilizing Cloud FPGAs towards the Open Neural Network Standard, Dimitrios Danopoulos, Christoforos Kachris, Dimitrios Soudris, NTUA, Athens, Greece. Concise paper

• Samsara Architecture: Exploring Situation Awareness in Cloud Computing Management, Vilnei Marins de Freitas das Neves, Marília Pit dos Santos, Adenauer Correa Yamin, Maurício Lima Pilla, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS BRAZIL. Regular paper

Architecture and System Level Optimization - II

• Energy-aware Primary/Backup Scheduling of Periodic Real-time Tasks on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems, Abhishek Roy, Hakan Aydin, Dakai Zhu, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia, VA, USA (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• Energy Characterization of Graph Workloads, Ankur Limaye, Antonino Tumeo, Tosiron Adegbija. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Regular paper

• Self-aware Power Management for Multi-core Microprocessors, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, George Mason University, USA. Regular paper

• Using Virtual Machine Live Migration in Trace-driven Energy-Aware Simulation, Osama Alrajeh, Matthew Forshaw, Nigel Thomas, Institute of Public Administration, SAUDI ARABIA. Regular paper

Sustainable Computing and Energy Harvesting

• Temporal Clustering Based Thermal Condition Monitoring in Building, Naima Khan, Masud Ahmed, Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (Best Paper Award Nominee). Regular paper

• A Probabilistic Approach to Committing Solar Energy in Day-ahead Electricity Markets, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Regular paper

• The Impact of Online Machine-learning Methods on Investment Decisions and Generator Utilization in Electricity Markets, Alexander John Michael Kell, A. Stephen McGough, Matthew Forshaw, Newcastle University, UNITED KINGDOM. Concise paper

• Enhancing Sustainability of the Railway Infrastructure Through Efficient Energy Management Policies, Silvano Chiaradonna, Giulio Masetti, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Francesca Righetti, Carlo Vallati, CNR, Pisa, Italy. Concise paper

• SolarDiagnostics: Automatic Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Array Damage Detection, Qi Li, Keyang Yu, Dong Chen, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. Concise paper

Panel 2: Software Energy Efficiency: When Academia Meets Industry

Moderator: Ziliang Zong (Texas State University, USA)

Panelists: Chris Palmisano (Rocket Dollar); Sean Bauld (Corporate Decision Scientist); Abram Hindle (University of Alberta); João Saraiva (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal)

Student Forum

Moderator: Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University, USA)

Embedded, IoT and Fog Computing - II

• Time Series Forecast Modeling of Vulnerabilities in the Android, Kerem Gencer, Fatih Başçiftçi, Karamanoglu, Mehmetbey Universitesi, TURKEY. Concise paper

• Energy Consumption of TAGS in a Heterogeneous Environment under Unknown Service Demand, Ali Abdullah ALssaiari, Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University School of Computing Science, UNITED KINGDOM. Concise paper

• Adaptive Workload Adjustment for Cyber-Physical Systems using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Shikang Xu, Israel Koren, C. Mani Krishna, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA. Concise paper

• PAC-FIT: An Efficient Privacy Preserving Access Control Scheme for Fog-enabled IoT, Richa Sarma, Chandan Kumar, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, IIIT Guwahati, INDIA. Concise paper

• DEDC: Sustainable Data communication for Cognitive Radio Sensors in the Internet of Things, S. Gopikrishnan, P. Priakanth, Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, CANADA. Regular paper

High-Performance Computing and Data Centers

• Energy Aware Scheduling of Malleable HPC Applications Using a Particle Swarm Optimised Greedy Algorithm, Briag Dupont, Nesryne Mejri, Georges Da Costa, University of Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG. Regular paper

• Improving the Cost Efficiency of Large-scale Cloud Systems Running Hybrid Workloads - A Case Study of Alibaba Cluster Traces, Brad Everman, Narmadha Rajendran, Xiaomin Li, Ziliang Zong, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX United States. Concise paper

• A Joint Energy Efficiency Optimization Scheme Based on Marginal Cost and Workload Prediction in Data Centers, Kaixuan Ji, Fa Zhang, Ce Chi, Penglei Song, Biyu Zhou, Avinab Marahatta, Zhiyong Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA. Concise paper

• Blockchain-based Decentralized Workload and Energy Management of Geo-distributed Data Centers, Sara Sajid, Muhammad Jawad, Kanza Hamid, Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Sahibzada Muhammad Ali, Assad Abbas, Samee U. Khan, COMSATS University Islamabad - Lahore Campus, Lahore, Punjab PAKISTAN. Regular paper

Panel 3: ML for Energy-efficient System Design

Moderator: Ryan Kim (Colorado State University, USA)

Panelists: Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine, USA. Self-aware Memory Management for Emerging Energy-efficient Architectures); Sai Manoj P D (George Mason University, USA)