Green IT: Technologies and Applications (eBook)

This book is the first of its kind in presenting comprehensive technical issues and solutions for rapidly growing Green IT.  It brings together in a single volume both green communications and green computing under the theme of Green IT, and presents exciting research and developments taking place therein in a survey style.  Written by the subject matter experts consisting of an international team of recognized researchers and practitioners in the field, Green IT: Technologies and Applications will serve as an excellent source of information on the latest technical trend of Green IT for graduate/undergraduate students, researchers, engineers, and engineering managers in the IT (Electrical, Communications, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Science) as well as interdisciplinary areas such as sustainability, environment, and energy.

The book comprises three parts: Green Communications, Green Computing, and Smart Grid and Applications. Part I Green Communications deals with energy efficient architectures and associated performance measures in wireless communications. It covers energy issues in PHY, MAC, Routing, Application layers and their solutions for a variety of networks.  Part II Green Computing deals with various energy issues in data centers, computing clusters, computing storage, and associated optimization techniques.  Energy management strategies are presented to balance between energy efficiency and required qualities of services.  Part III Smart Grid and Applications presents an overview and research challenges for smart grid. Applications include modeling of urban pollutant for transportation networks, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) architecture with long range radio, and Green IT standards.

Dr. Jae Hoon Kim is a Senior Technical Fellow / Executive of The Boeing Company. He is working with Boeing Research & Technology in the area of Communications and Network Systems Technology, focusing on wireless mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), Sensor network, and Cognitive radio-based NetOps. Dr. Kim is also an Affiliate Professor and Graduate Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He has served as an IEEE Associate Editor for a monthly Technical Journal, Communications Letters for the last decade. Dr. Kim has been a Principal Investigator and Program Manager for a number of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract programs from DARPA, Army CERDEC, AFRL, and ONR.  Prior to Boeing, Dr. Kim has been a Task Manager and Member of Technical Staff as Senior Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. degree from Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Univeristy of Florida, Gainesville. He is an author/co-author of 80+ publications, holds 4 U.S. patents granted with 1 patent pending, has received 10 NASA Technical Innovation Awards, and 25+ Boeing Technology Awards for outstanding technical performance recognition. Dr. Kim received an Asian-American Engineers of the Year 2009 Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers in USA. Dr. Kim is currently serving as the 39^th President of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Dr. Kim can be reached at jae.h.kim@boeing.com.

Dr. Myung Jong Lee is a Professor and Director, Advanced Wireless Networks Laboratory in the department of Electrical Engineering of City University of New York. Dr. Lee received B.S and M.S degrees from Seoul National University, Korea, and a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York. He was visiting scientists to Telcordia and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, CR networks, wireless multimedia networking, and Internet. He published extensively in these areas (140 plus) and holds 30 U.S and International Patents (pending incl.). His researches have been funded by government agencies and leading industries, including NSF, ARL, Telcordia, Panasonic, Samsung, ETRI, etc.

Dr. Lee actively participates in international standard organizations (the chair of IEEE 802.15.5).

His research group contributed NS-2 module for IEEE 802.15.4, widely used for wireless sensor network researches. He is an associate editor for IEEE communications magazine, and co-awarded the best paper from IEEE CCNC 2005. Dr. Lee also received CUNY Excellence Performance Award. Dr. Lee is serving as the Vice President for Technology Affairs of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Dr. Lee can be reached at lee@ccny.cuny.edu.