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  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
16,246 Views
28 Pages

Energy-Aware Scheduling for High-Performance Computing Systems: A Survey

  • Bartłomiej Kocot,
  • Paweł Czarnul and
  • Jerzy Proficz

12 January 2023

High-performance computing (HPC), according to its name, is traditionally oriented toward performance, especially the execution time and scalability of the computations. However, due to the high cost and environmental issues, energy consumption has a...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
92 Views
35 Pages

11 November 2026

The ongoing growth in data processing requirements in today’s cloud computing environment has led to a notable increase in data center energy usage. This study undertakes a thorough investigation into the use of nature-inspired iterative algori...

(This article belongs to the Section Cloud Continuum and Enabled Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
23 Pages

Cloud computing has transformed the delivery of modern applications and services by providing scalable, flexible, and cost-effective access to computing resources. One of the most critical challenges in cloud environments is the efficient distributio...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
439 Views
22 Pages

GPS: A Lightweight Greedy-Predictive Scheduling Approach for Energy-Aware Multi-Region Cloud Computing

  • Mohamed F. Yacoub,
  • Ahmed E. Abdel Raouf,
  • Walaa Gad and
  • Nagwa L. Badr

Efficient resource allocation and task scheduling remain fundamental challenges in cloud computing because of resource heterogeneity, dynamic workload characteristics, and the increasing demand for scalable, energy-efficient, and sustainable cloud in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Cloud Service Orchestration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,509 Views
12 Pages

15 June 2018

Mobile edge computing is proposed as a promising computing paradigm to relieve the excessive burden of data centers and mobile networks, which is induced by the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT). This work introduces the cloud-assisted multi-c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software-Defined Networking Based Mobile Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,287 Views
26 Pages

12 August 2014

As the demand for cloud computing continues to increase, cloud service providers face the daunting challenge to meet the negotiated SLA agreement, in terms of reliability and timely performance, while achieving cost-effectiveness. This challenge is i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green IT and IT for Smart Energy Savings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,058 Views
22 Pages

Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings through Context-Aware Social Computing

  • Óscar García,
  • Ricardo S. Alonso,
  • Javier Prieto and
  • Juan M. Corchado

11 April 2017

The challenge of promoting behavioral changes in users that leads to energy savings in public buildings has become a complex task requiring the involvement of multiple technologies. Wireless sensor networks have a great potential for the development...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Context Aware Environments and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
227 Views
36 Pages

Energy-Aware AI-Enabled Intelligent Sensing Systems for IoT and Edge–Cloud Architectures

  • Zhanar Mukash,
  • Dina Bakranova,
  • Abay Serikkanov,
  • Nurlan Bakranov and
  • Binara Imankulova

2 November 2026

AI-enabled intelligent sensing systems are increasingly used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, edge–cloud environments, industrial automation, and cyber-physical systems. Their design, however, requires simultaneous consideration of sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge AI for Smart Sensor Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,206 Views
15 Pages

An Efficient Energy-Aware Tasks Scheduling with Deadline-Constrained in Cloud Computing

  • Said BEN ALLA,
  • Hicham BEN ALLA,
  • Abdellah TOUHAFI and
  • Abdellah EZZATI

Nowadays, Cloud Computing (CC) has emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. However, the wider deployment of Cloud and the rapid increase in the capacity, as well as the size of data centers, induces a tremendo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Innovations in Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech 2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,587 Views
27 Pages

Scientific problems can be formulated as workflows to allow them to take advantage of cluster computing resources. Generally, the assumption is that the greater the resources dedicated to completing these tasks the better. This assumption does not ta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Aware HPC Revisited: AI Concerns, Architectures and Optimization Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
28 Pages

Incentive-Based Energy-Efficient Workload Scheduling of Mobile Edge Computing Using Blockchain

  • Muhammad Tayyab Chaudhry,
  • Hamza Bin Hamid,
  • Fawad Azeem,
  • Muhammad Kamran Joyo and ,
  • Izanoordina Ahmad and
  • Kushsairy Kadir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 May 2026

In incentive-based mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, task execution depends on volunteer devices which are often limited in battery capacity. Continuous computation on such devices directly increases energy consumption and may reduce their operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Engineering for Future Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,188 Views
16 Pages

Energy-Aware and Secure Task Offloading for Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Computing Systems

  • Hatem A. Alharbi,
  • Mohammad Aldossary,
  • Jaber Almutairi and
  • Ibrahim A. Elgendy

20 March 2023

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) devices and their services and applications are gaining popularity and attracting considerable attention in different fields of our daily life. Nevertheless, most of these applications and services require more...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,420 Views
24 Pages

Federated Learning for Environmental Monitoring: A Review of Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Tymoteusz Miller,
  • Irmina Durlik,
  • Ewelina Kostecka and
  • Arkadiusz Puszkarek

29 November 2025

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a pivotal paradigm for environmental monitoring, enabling decentralized model training across edge devices without exposing raw data. This review provides the first structured synthesis of 361 peer-reviewed stud...

  • Review
  • Open Access
323 Views
46 Pages

Smart Camera Traps in the Field: A Scoping Review of Architecture and Energy Evidence

  • Wallace Cavalcante,
  • Jozias Oliveira,
  • Rubens de Andrade Fernandes and
  • Israel Gondres Torné

Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) is used in wildlife monitoring to reduce communication demand, support decision-making, and enable energy-aware operation, yet embedded inference alone does not establish whether a system can sustain useful serv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Power Sensing and Energy Harvesting for Self-Sustained Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,769 Views
17 Pages

The fast growth of AI and large-scale industrial compute infrastructures has led to unsustainable increases in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale, creating serious sustainability issues in today’s modern cloud com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industrial Processes and Manufacturing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
601 Views
34 Pages

4 September 2026

Energy management in battery-powered embedded Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) nodes requires coordinated control of sensing, computation, and wireless communication. This structured review combines a documented search of Scopus, Web of Scien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,987 Views
53 Pages

Pareto Approximation Empirical Results of Energy-Aware Optimization for Precedence-Constrained Task Scheduling Considering Switching Off Completely Idle Machines

  • José Antonio Castán Rocha,
  • Alejandro Santiago,
  • Alejandro H. García-Ruiz,
  • Jesús David Terán-Villanueva and ,
  • Salvador Ibarra Martínez and
  • Mayra Guadalupe Treviño Berrones
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 November 2024

Recent advances in cloud computing, large language models, and deep learning have started a race to create massive High-Performance Computing (HPC) centers worldwide. These centers increase in energy consumption proportionally to their computing capa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Optimization Algorithms for Scheduling and Operations Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,905 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2025

Ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) is a cornerstone of beyond 5G and future 6G networks, particularly for mission-critical applications such as the healthcare Internet of Things. In applications such as remote surgery, emergency service...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,482 Views
21 Pages

Energy-aware Adaptive Cruise Control (Eco-ACC) has become an essential approach for enhancing the energy efficiency of electric vehicles while ensuring safe and comfortable driving. This paper presents a systematic review, following the PRISMA method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,907 Views
14 Pages

Energy-Aware Next-Generation Mobile Routing Chains with Fog Computing for Emerging Applications

  • Khalid Haseeb,
  • Fahad A. Alzahrani,
  • Mohammad Siraj,
  • Zahid Ullah and
  • Jaime Lloret

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides robust services to connected sensors in a distributed manner, and maintains real-time communication using wireless standards. The smart network has offered many autonomous smart systems to collect information fro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,111 Views
29 Pages

25 March 2025

The Vehicular Edge-Cloud Computing (VECC) paradigm has gained traction as a promising solution to mitigate the computational constraints through offloading resource-intensive tasks to distributed edge and cloud networks. However, conventional computa...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Digital Engineering and Energy-Aware Management of Urban Crossings Under Growing Electrified Micromobility: Three-Year Field Evidence and a Field-Calibrated Energy Budget

  • Damian Frej,
  • Marcin Ślęzak,
  • Marek Jaśkiewicz,
  • Ewa Dębicka and ,
  • Miloš Poliak,
  • Rafał Chaba,
  • Przemysław Kubiak,
  • Dariusz Tarnapowicz and
  • Tymoteusz Zaleski
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 November 2026

Urban digitalization requires site-specific evidence to determine where intelligent sensing, edge processing, warning actuation and energy management functions are justified. This repeated cross-sectional field study quantified changes in smartphone-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,424 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2025

Resource-constrained IoT and IIoT systems require detection architectures that balance accuracy with energy efficiency, scalability, and contextual awareness. This paper presents a conceptual framework informed by a systematic review of energy-aware...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advancing the Energy Internet: Innovations and Solutions for a Sustainable Energy Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
564 Views
53 Pages

An Edge-Computing UAV Architecture for GPS-Denied Structural Inspection in Reinforced-Concrete Environments: A Prototype-Based Proof-of-Concept Evaluation

  • Görkem Gök,
  • Anıl Sezgin,
  • Merve Açıkgenç Ulaş,
  • Hakan Güler and ,
  • Nuray Beyza Avcı,
  • Betül Bektaş Ekici,
  • Nihal Arda Akyıldız,
  • Mustafa Ulaş and
  • Aytuğ Boyacı
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

4 September 2026

While there are evident advantages to deploying UAVs for structural inspection applications within reinforced-concrete structures where human access may be hazardous or restricted, UAV deployment is still inhibited within structures due to a lack of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Drone Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,975 Views
18 Pages

Smart SDN Management of Fog Services to Optimize QoS and Energy

  • Piotr Fröhlich,
  • Erol Gelenbe,
  • Jerzy Fiołka,
  • Jacek Chęciński and ,
  • Mateusz Nowak and
  • Zdzisław Filus
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 April 2021

The short latency required by IoT devices that need to access specific services have led to the development of Fog architectures that can serve as a useful intermediary between IoT systems and the Cloud. However, the massive numbers of IoT devices th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Global IoT Summit GIoTS 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
20 Pages

Energy efficiency has become a primary bottleneck in hardware platforms supporting machine learning workloads, particularly as modern inference and training tasks demand sustained high-throughput computation. This challenge is further amplified in en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,179 Views
18 Pages

A Comparison of Energy Consumption and Quality of Solutions in Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Francisco Javier Luque-Hernández,
  • Sergio Aquino-Britez,
  • Josefa Díaz-Álvarez and
  • Pablo García-Sánchez

22 September 2025

Evolutionary algorithms are extensively used to solve optimisation problems. However, it is important to consider and reduce their energy consumption, bearing in mind that programming languages also significantly affect energy efficiency. This resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms for Real World Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
630 Views
22 Pages

2 June 2026

This paper addresses the problem of efficient federated learning in energy-harvesting AIoT systems, where time-varying energy availability may lead to device blackouts and unstable learning performance. To address this issue, we propose an energy-ada...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting and Machine Learning in IoT Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
478 Views
37 Pages

29 September 2026

The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) has made training energy efficiency a major systems and sustainability challenge. Training requires substantial computation, memory, communication, and electrical energy, yet the literature often treat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,864 Views
19 Pages

Fluid-Flow Approximation in the Analysis of Vast Energy-Aware Networks

  • Monika Nycz,
  • Tomasz Nycz and
  • Tadeusz Czachórski

16 December 2021

The paper addresses two issues: (i) modeling dynamic flows transmitted in vast TCP/IP networks and (ii) modeling the impact of energy-saving algorithms. The approach is based on the fluid-flow approximation, which applies first-order differential equ...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
909 Views
37 Pages

11 August 2026

The rapid growth of AI-driven workloads, IoT ecosystems, and distributed digital services has exposed fundamental limitations in existing cloud and edge infrastructures, particularly in guaranteeing robust data privacy under emerging quantum threats....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,840 Views
20 Pages

EcoWild: Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Aware Wildfire Detection in Remote Environments

  • Nuriye Yildirim,
  • Mingcong Cao,
  • Minwoo Yun,
  • Jaehyun Park and
  • Umit Y. Ogras

30 September 2025

Early wildfire detection in remote areas remains a critical challenge due to limited connectivity, intermittent solar energy, and the need for autonomous, long-term operation. Existing systems often rely on fixed sensing schedules or cloud connectivi...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
192 Views
29 Pages

14 October 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), semantic communication, and mobile edge computing (MEC) jointly create a high-dimensional, non-convex, and time-coupled resource allocation problem in sixth-generation (6G) networks that existing heuristic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Method for Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,682 Views
35 Pages

Large-scale smart city Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures must simultaneously provide strong cybersecurity protection, real-time anomaly detection, and energy-efficient operation despite the strict resource limitations of sensing devices. The c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge and Fog Computing for Internet of Things Systems (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,434 Views
15 Pages

Thermal-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Centers

  • Abbas Akbari,
  • Ahmad Khonsari and
  • Seyed Mohammad Ghoreyshi

4 June 2020

In recent years, a large and growing body of literature has addressed the energy-efficient resource management problem in data centers. Due to the fact that cooling costs still remain the major portion of the total data center energy cost, thermal-aw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
459 Views
34 Pages

5 August 2026

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) enables computation-intensive perception and decision-making tasks in vehicular networks to be offloaded to nearby edge servers. Existing approaches usually fix the artificial intelligence (AI) inference model, overl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing for Resource Sharing and Sensing in IoT Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,572 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Objective Task-Aware Offloading and Scheduling Framework for Internet of Things Logistics

  • Asif Umer,
  • Mushtaq Ali,
  • Ali Imran Jehangiri,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Junaid Shuja

9 April 2024

IoT-based smart transportation monitors vehicles, cargo, and driver statuses for safe movement. Due to the limited computational capabilities of the sensors, the IoT devices require powerful remote servers to execute their tasks, and this phenomenon...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
534 Views
20 Pages

Learning-Based Cost-Minimization Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Multi-Tier Vehicular Computing

  • Shijun Weng,
  • Yigang Xing,
  • Yaoshan Zhang,
  • Mengyao Li and ,
  • Donghan Li and
  • Haoting He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2026

With the fast development of the 5G technology and IoV, a vehicle has become a smart device with communication, computing, and storage capabilities. However, the limited on-board storage and computing resources often cause large latency for task proc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods in Wireless Communications with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
337 Views
27 Pages

22 September 2026

With the rapid development of the digital economy, the construction scale of data centers continues to expand. Given the substantial heat generated by their high electricity consumption, data centers have become critical components of integrated ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,332 Views
40 Pages

11 March 2026

The fast growth of edge–cloud computing infrastructures has increased the cybersecurity burden even as it has substantially amplified the energy use and carbon footprint of intrusion detection systems (IDSs). In order to overcome this challenge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Securing the Internet of Things: Advances in Attack and Intrusion Detection Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,039 Views
36 Pages

22 June 2022

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) scheduling over cloud computing resources called Cloud Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling (CBS) problem, which is a well-known NP-hard optimization problem. Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is an effective method for CBS problems, which sti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,619 Views
22 Pages

4 October 2025

The advent of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks and cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures underscores the need for efficient resource allocation to support federated learning (FL) at the network edge. Existing ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,098 Views
28 Pages

Adaptive and Sustainable Smart Environments Using Predictive Reasoning and Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning

  • Abderrahim Lakehal,
  • Boubakeur Annane,
  • Adel Alti,
  • Philippe Roose and
  • Soliman Aljarboa

8 January 2026

Smart environments play a key role in improving user comfort, energy efficiency, and sustainability through intelligent automation. Nevertheless, real-world deployments still face major challenges, including network instability, delayed responsivenes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence: Innovation, Applications and Transformative Experiences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,452 Views
20 Pages

24 December 2019

The continuous data-flow application in the IoT integrates the functions of fog, edge, and cloud computing. Its typical paradigm is the E-Health system. Like other IoT applications, the energy consumption optimization of IoT devices in continuous dat...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,573 Views
22 Pages

Greedy-VoI Time-Mesh Design for Rolling-Horizon EMS: Optimizing Block-Variable Granularity and Horizon Under Compute Budgets

  • Gregorio Fernández,
  • J. F. Sanz Osorio,
  • Adrián Alarcón,
  • Miguel Torres and
  • Alfonso Calavia

Rolling-horizon energy management systems (EMSs) and model predictive control (MPC) for microgrids in smart cities face a fundamental trade-off: finer temporal discretization improves operational performance but rapidly increases the size of the opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sustainable Cities: Pioneering Novel Frontiers for Green Urban Living)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,657 Views
21 Pages

Energy Aware Load Balancing Framework for Smart Grid Using Cloud and Fog Computing

  • Saurabh Singhal,
  • Senthil Athithan,
  • Madani Abdu Alomar,
  • Rakesh Kumar and ,
  • Bhisham Sharma,
  • Gautam Srivastava and
  • Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 March 2023

Data centers are producing a lot of data as cloud-based smart grids replace traditional grids. The number of automated systems has increased rapidly, which in turn necessitates the rise of cloud computing. Cloud computing helps enterprises offer serv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Edge Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,774 Views
23 Pages

SparseDroop: Hardware–Software Co-Design for Mitigating Voltage Droop in DNN Accelerators

  • Arnab Raha,
  • Shamik Kundu,
  • Arghadip Das,
  • Soumendu Kumar Ghosh and
  • Deepak A. Mathaikutty

Modern deep neural network (DNN) accelerators must sustain high throughput while avoiding performance degradation from supply voltage (VDD) droop, which occurs when large arrays of multiply–accumulate (MAC) units switch concurrently and induce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,443 Views
21 Pages

14 November 2022

Cloud–fog computing is a large-scale service environment developed to deliver fast, scalable services to clients. The fog nodes of such environments are distributed in diverse places and operate independently by deciding on which data to proces...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
4,586 Views
25 Pages

A Deep Learning-Driven Self-Conscious Distributed Cyber-Physical System for Renewable Energy Communities

  • Giovanni Cicceri,
  • Giuseppe Tricomi,
  • Luca D’Agati,
  • Francesco Longo and ,
  • Giovanni Merlino and
  • Antonio Puliafito
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 May 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming various domains, including smart energy management, by enabling the integration of complex digital and physical components in distributed cyber-physical systems (DCPSs). The design of DCPSs has so far been...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Technology and Data Analytics Applied in Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,594 Views
15 Pages

1 May 2017

Energy efficiency is a significant topic in cloud computing. Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) with live migration is an important method to reduce energy consumption. However, frequent VM live migration may cause a downtime of service....

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