1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298568403321

Autore

Zhao Bo

Titolo

Mobile web browsing using the cloud / / Bo Zhao, Byung Chul Tak, Guohong Cao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-4614-8103-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 54 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Springer briefs in computer science

Altri autori (Persone)

TakByung Chul

CaoGuohong

Disciplina

004

004.678

Soggetti

Mobile computing

Cloud computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 2191-5768."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Related Work -- Motivation -- Virtual Machine Based Proxy (VMP) -- Performance Measurements -- Conclusions and Future Research Directions.

Sommario/riassunto

This brief surveys existing techniques to address the problem of long delays and high power consumption for web browsing on smartphones, which can be due to the local computational limitation at the smartphone (e.g., running java scripts or flash objects) level. To address this issue, an architecture called Virtual-Machine based Proxy (VMP) is introduced, shifting the computing from smartphones to the VMP which may reside in the cloud. Mobile Web Browsing Using the Cloud illustrates the feasibility of deploying the proposed VMP system in 3G networks through a prototype using Xen virtual machines (in cloud) and Android Phones with ATT UMTS network. Techniques to address scalability issues, resource management techniques to optimize the performance of the VMs on the proxy side, compression techniques to further reduce the bandwidth consumption, and adaptation techniques to address poor network conditions on the smartphone are also included.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910585938603321

Autore

Rosa-Santos Paulo Jorge

Titolo

Hybrid Systems for Marine Energy Harvesting

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Technologies to harvest marine renewable energies (MREs) are at a pre-commercial stage, and significant R&D progress is still required in order to improve their competitiveness. Therefore, hybridization presents a significant potential, as it fosters synergies among the different harvesting technologies and resources. In the scope of this Special Issue, hybridization is understood in three different manners: (i) combination of technologies to harvest different MREs (e.g., wave energy converters combined with wind turbines); (ii) combination of different working principles to harvest the same resource (e.g., oscillating water column with an overtopping device to harvest wave energy); or (iii) integration of harvesting technologies in multifunctional platforms and structures (e.g., integration of wave energy converters in breakwaters). This Special Issue presents cutting-edge research on the development and testing of hybrid technologies for harvesting MREs and intends to inform interested readers on the most recent advances in this key topic.