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Cross-Layer Adaptation
Applications
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Networks
Operating System and Resource Management

Cross-layer Adaptation

• GRACE-2: Integrating Fine-Grained Application Adaptations with Global Adaptation for Saving Energy Vibhore Vardhan, Daniel Sachs, Wanghong Yuan, Albert F. Harris III, Sarita Adve, Douglas Jones, Robin Kravets, and Klara Nahrstedt, To appear in the International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Special Issue on "Low-Power Real-Time Embedded Computing". Invited paper. (Extended version of a paper in the Workshop on Power Aware Real-Time Computing (PARC), 2005.)
  
  

• A New Framework for Hierarchical Cross-layer Adaptation D. G. Sachs, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
   

• Cross-layer Energy-efficient Mobile System Design A. F. Harris III, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
   

• Integrating Fine-Grained Application Adaptation with Global Adaptation for Saving Energy, V. Vardhan, D. G. Sachs, W. Yuan, A. F. Harris, S. V. Adve, D. L. Jones, R. H. Kravets, and K. Nahrstedt, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Power-Aware Real-Time Computing (PARC), Jersey City, NJ, September 2005.
   

• Integrated Global and Per-Application Cross-Layer Adaptations for Saving Energy, V. Vardhan, M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
   

• GRACE: A Hierarchical Adaptation Framework for Saving Energy, Daniel Grobe Sachs, Wanghong Yuan, Christopher J. Hughes, Albert Harris, Sarita V. Adve, Douglas L. Jones, Robin H. Kravets, Klara Nahrstedt, Computer Science, University of Illinois Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2409, Februrary 2004.
   

• GRACE: A Cross-Layer Adaptation Framework for Saving Energy, D. G. Sachs, W. Yuan, C. J. Hughes, A. F. Harris, S. V. Adve, D. L. Jones, R. H. Kravets, and K. Nahrstedt, Sidebar in IEEE Computer, special issue on Power-Aware Computing, December 2003, 50-51.
   

• Process Group Management in Cross-Layer Adaptation, W. Yuan and K. Nahrstedt, Proc. of SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'04), Santa Clara, CA, January 2004.
   

• Cross-layer Adaptive Video Coding to Reduce Energy on General-Purpose Processors, D. G. Sachs, S. Adve, D. L. Jones, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing 2003 (ICIP '03), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.
   

• Design and Evaluation of A Cross-Layer Adaptation Framework for Mobile Multimedia Systems, W. Yuan, K. Nahrstedt, S. Adve, D. Jones, and R. Kravets, Proceedings of the SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'03), Santa Clara, CA, January 2003, 1-13.
   

• The Illinois GRACE Project: Global Resource Adaptation through CoopEration, Sarita V. Adve, Albert F. Harris, Christopher J. Hughes, Douglas L. Jones, Robin H. Kravets, Klara Nahrstedt, Daniel Grobe Sachs, Ruchira Sasanka, Jayanth Srinivasan, and Wanghong Yuan, Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Healing, Adaptive, and self-MANaged Systems (SHAMAN) (held in conjunction with the 16th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing), June 2002.
   

Applications

• A General Joint Source-Channel Matching Method for Error Resilient Wireless Video Transmission, L. Qian, D. Jones, K. Ramchandran, To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
   

• Total System Energy Minimization for Wireless Image Transmission, S. Appadwedula, M. Goel, N. Shanbhag, D. Jones, K. Ramchandran. Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems February 2001.
   

Architecture

• The Energy Efficiency of CMP vs. SMT for Multimedia Workloads , R. Sasanka, S. V. Adve, Y. -K. Chen, and E. Debes, To appear in the Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '04) June 2004.
   
• A Formal Approach to Frequent Energy Adaptations for Multimedia Applications, Christopher J. Hughes and Sarita V. Adve, To appear in the Proceedings of 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '04) June 2004.
   

• Predictive Dynamic Thermal Management for Multimedia Applications, Jayanth Srinivasan and Sarita V. Adve, in the Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, (ICS'03), pgs.109-120, San Francisco, June 2003.
   

• Soft Real-Time Scheduling on a Simultaneous Multithreaded Processor, R. Jain, C. J. Hughes, and S. V. Adve, in the Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS-2002), December 2002.
   

• Joint Local and Global Hardware Adaptations for Energy, Ruchira Sasanka, Christopher J. Hughes, and Sarita V. Adve, in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X), October 2002.
   

• Saving Energy with Architectural and Frequency Adaptations for Multimedia Applications, C. J. Hughes, J. Srinivasan, and S. V. Adve, Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-34), December 2001, 250-261. (Supplemental data)
   

• Variability in the Execution of Multimedia Applications and Implications for Architecture, C. J. Hughes, P. Kaul, S. V. Adve, R. Jain, C. Park, and J. Srinivasan, Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2001, 254-265.
   

• Reconfigurable Caches and their Application to Media Processing, P. Ranganathan, S. V.Adve, and N. P. Jouppi, Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2000, 214-224.
   

• Performance of Image and Video Processing with General-Purpose Processors and Media ISA Extensions , P. Ranganathan, S. V. Adve, and N. P. Jouppi, Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1999, 124-135.

Networks

• Application-Driven Power Management for Mobile Communication, R. Kravets and P. Krishnan, ACM/URSI/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET) special issue of Best Papers from MobiCom'98, 1998.
   

Operating System and Resource Management

• Energy-Efficient Soft Real-Time CPU Scheduling for Mobile Multimedia Systems, W. Yuan and K. Nahrstedt, Proc. of 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'03), Bolton Landing, NY, Oct 2003.
   

• ReCalendar: Calendaring and Scheduling Applications with CPU and Energy Resource Guarantees for Mobile Devices, W. Yuan and K. Nahrstedt, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom'03), Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, March 2003, 425-432.
   

• Integration of Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Soft Real-Time Scheduling for Open Mobile Systems, W. Yuan and K. Nahrstedt, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '02), Miami Beach, FL, May 2002.
   

• A Middleware Framework Coordinating Processor/Power Resource Management for Multimedia Applications, W. Yuan and K. Nahrstedt, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2001, San Antonio, Texas, November 2001.
  
  

• Coordinating Energy-Aware Adaptation of Multimedia Applications and Hardware Resource, W. Yuan, K. Nahrstedt and X. Gu, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Multimedia (Multimedia Middleware Workshop), Ottawa, Canada, October 2001.
  
  

• R-EDF: A Reservation-Based EDF Scheduling Algorithm for Multiple Multimedia Task Classes, W. Yuan, K. Nahrstedt and K. Kim, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Taiwan, May 2001.