Energy Management in Untethered and Sparse Systems

Mark Corner

CS Department UMass, Amherst

Friday, November 21, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuller Labs, Perreault Hall

ABSTRACT:

A large number of untethered systems, including mobile computing, sensor networking, vehicular networks, and even underwater networks, depend on sparse, opportunistic communication to deliver data. Unfortunately, the nature of these systems saddles platforms with limited energy supplies, high idle energy costs, unpredictable communication opportunities, and heterogeneous workloads. In this talk, I will describe our recent efforts in energy management for untethered, sparse networks, including several heterogeneous hardware platforms, operating system support for monitoring energy consumption and use, and an energy-aware programming language called Eon. This talk will span a number of recent papers and deployments from our lab appearing in Mobisys, Mobicom, Sensys, Ubicomp, and Infocom. This talk is intended as a broad overview of our research, featuring more photos than graphs, and more graphs than equations.

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Mark Corner has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2003. He graduated with his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. His primary interests lie in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing and networking, file systems, and security. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2005, Best Paper awards at FAST 2007 and ACM Multimedia 2005, as well as the Best Student Paper Award at Mobicom 2002. Prof. Corner was the Program Chair of the HotMobile 2008 Workshop and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Host: Micha Hofri

Refreshments will be served.

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