Investigating the Interaction between Energy Consumption, Quality of Service, Reliability, Security, and Maintainability of Computer Systems and Networks

Video streaming is expected to acquire a massive share of the global internet traffic in the near future. Meanwhile, it is expected that most of the global traffic will be carried over wireless networks. This trend translates into considerable challenges for Service Providers (SP) in terms of maintaining consumers' Quality of Experience (QoE), energy consumption, utilisation of wireless resources, and profitability. However, the majority of Radio Resource Allocation (RRA) algorithms only consider enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) and network parameters. Since this approach may end up with unsatisfied customers in the future, it is essential to develop innovative RRA algorithms that adopt a user-centric approach based on users' QoE. This chapter focus on wireless video over Critical communication systems that are inspired by QoE perceived by end users. This chapter presents a background to introduce the reader to this area, followed by a review of the related up-to-date literature.

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A Case Study on the QoS, Energy Consumption and Mobility of WLANs and WMANs

Handbook of Research on Heterogeneous Next Generation Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-108-7.ch009 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 175-196

Author(s):

Ioannis Papapanagiotou ◽

Georgios S. Paschos

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Life Time ◽

Wireless Access ◽

Next Generation Networks ◽

Telecommunication Services ◽

Wireless Architectures ◽

Important Design

The present chapter contains a thorough investigation of Quality of Service, Energy Conservation and mobility in 802.11 and 802.16 standards. Interest on these two technologies arises from the fact that they are designed to cooperate offering wireless access capabilities in Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Under NGN Wireless architectures, key challenges must be taken into account: (a) Broadband technologies are based on QoS Enabled Telecommunication Services; (b) Mobile devices are battery limited. In fact, how to prolong the life time of a mobile device and minimize power usage is a very important design issue; (c) Wireless operation means that the user is expected to roam freely, which must also be taken into account. The dependability of NGN operation is obviously depended on these three features.

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Integrated Optimization on Energy Saving and Quality of Service of Urban Rail Transit System

Journal of Advanced Transportation ◽

10.1155/2020/3474020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wenxin Li ◽

Qiyuan Peng ◽

Chao Wen ◽

Shengdong Li ◽

Xu Yan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Total Energy ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Total Energy Consumption ◽

Transit System ◽

Running Time ◽

Urban Rail

Optimizing to increase the utilization ratio of regenerative braking energy reduces energy consumption, and can be done without increasing the deviation of train running time in one circle. The latter entails that the train timetable is upheld, which guarantees that the demand for passenger transport services is met and the quality of services in the urban rail transit system is maintained. This study proposes a multi-objective optimization model for urban railways with timetable optimization to minimize the total energy consumption of trains while maximizing the quality of service. To this end, we apply the principles and ideas of calculus to reduce the power of the velocity in the train energy consumption model. This greatly simplifies the complexity of the optimization model. Then, considering the conflicting requirements of decision-makers, weight factors are added to the objective functions to reflect decision-makers’ preferences for energy-saving and the quality of service. We adopt the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) to solve the proposed model. A practical case study of the Yizhuang urban railway line in Beijing is conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and evaluate the advantages of the optimal energy saving timetable (OEST) in comparison to the optimal quality of service timetable (OQOST). The results showed that the OEST reduced total energy consumption by 8.72% but increased the deviation of trains running time in one circle by 728 s. The total energy consumption was reduced by 6.09%, but there was no increase in the deviation of train running time in one circle with the OQOST.

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Makespan–Cost–Reliability-Optimized Workflow Scheduling Using Evolutionary Techniques in Clouds

Journal of Circuits System and Computers ◽

10.1142/s0218126620501674 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 2050167

Author(s):

Xiumin Zhou ◽

Gongxuan Zhang ◽

Tian Wang ◽

Mingyue Zhang ◽

Xiji Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

System Reliability ◽

Scientific Workflow ◽

Workflow Scheduling ◽

Workflow Systems ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Qos Parameters ◽

Crossover And Mutation

Most popular scientific workflow systems can now support the deployment of tasks to the cloud. The execution of workflow on cloud has become a multi-objective scheduling in order to meet the needs of users in many aspects. Cost and makespan are considered to be the two most important objects. In addition to these, there are some other Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters including system reliability, energy consumption and so on. Here, we focus on three objectives: cost, makespan and system reliability. In this paper, we propose a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm on the Cloud (MEAC). In the algorithm, we design some novel schemes including problem-specific encoding and also evolutionary operations, such as crossover and mutation. Simulations on real-world and random workflows are conducted and the results show that MEAC can get on average about 5% higher hypervolume value than some other workflow scheduling algorithms.

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Energy consumption and quality of service in WBAN: A performance evaluation between cross-layer and IEEE802.15.4

DYNA ◽

10.15446/dyna.v84n202.61895 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 84 (202) ◽

pp. 120-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Juan Camilo Correa-Chica ◽

Juan Felipe Botero-Vega ◽

Natalia Gaviria-Gómez

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Performance Evaluation ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Cross Layer ◽

A Performance

Dentro de los esquemas de comunicación de redes inalámbricas de área corporal (WBAN), se encuentran los protocolos de capa cruzada, constituidos en una novedosa opción para alcanzar un balance efectivo entre consumo eficiente de energía y métricas de desempeño. En el presente trabajo, evaluamos el desempeño de una estrategia de capa cruzada al compararla contra los protocolos del estándar IEEE802.15.4 en una WBAN. Se evaluó el desempeño de ambas estrategias empleando una simulación de redes WBAN. Luego se ejecutó una comparación estadística y se encontró que la estrategia de capa cruzada ofrece un mejor desempeño con respecto a la compensación entre consumo eficiente de energía y algunas métricas de desempeño en nuestra WBAN. Observamos que en general, la estrategia de capa cruzada supera a ambos modos del estándar IEEE802.15.4 (ranurado y no-ranurado) con respecto a consumo eficiente de energía, retraso extremo a extremo, tasa de pérdida de paquetes y goodput.

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Evaluation of Participant Patient Satisfaction Evaluation in Childbirth Care at Independent Midwifery Practices

Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan Indonesia ◽

10.21927/jnki.2019.7(3).186-191 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 186

Author(s):

Dwie Ayu

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Patient Satisfaction ◽

Health Insurance ◽

Service Quality ◽

Health Sector ◽

Independent Practice ◽

Service Reliability ◽

Five Dimensions ◽

Improvement Programs

<p><em>Patient satisfaction is a measure of the quality of care. One important problem that continues to be faced is the lack of good quality service and getting client satisfaction. The aim is to explore the satisfaction of maternity patients using BPJS guarantees for the services provided by midwives in the Midwife's Independent Practice. This research method uses qualitative short narrative or force. PubMed and Proquest searches were carried out systematically from 2008 to 2018. Quality articles were selected based on inclusion and Critical Assessment criteria. Based on the review found k Mothers' satisfaction with prenatal care can be said to be the experience that results from subjective judgments about what the mother expects and what actually happens related to labor. Factors that influence patient satisfaction in labor are environmental factors, technical and professional aspects of nursing, and aspects of care and communication. Quality of service is the dominant concept in quality assurance and quality improvement programs in the health sector. One method for determining quality is evaluating customer satisfaction. One tool for evaluating and analyzing service quality gaps is SERVQUAL to study the difference between customer expectations and perceptions in different dimensions including in five dimensions of service quality namely physical evidence, service reliability, responding, assurance and empathy. To get health services, you can use health insurance (BPJS). The benefits of health insurance are freeing participants from the difficulty of providing cash, health costs can be monitored, quality of service can be overcome and the availability of health data. </em></p>

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Green Metascheduler Architecture to Provide QoS in Cloud Computing

CLEI electronic journal ◽

10.19153/cleiej.18.2.9 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Osvaldo Adilson De Carvalho Junior ◽

Sarita Mazzini Bruschi ◽

Regina Helena Carlucci Santana ◽

Marcos José Santana

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Quality Of Service ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Response Time ◽

Large Scale ◽

Quality Of Services ◽

Average Response ◽

Average Response Time ◽

Private Cloud

The aim of this paper is to propose and evaluate GreenMACC (Green Metascheduler Architecture to Provide QoS in Cloud Computing), an extension of the MACC architecture (Metascheduler Architecture to provide QoS in Cloud Computing) which uses greenIT techniques to provide Quality of Service. The paper provides an evaluation of the performance of the policies in the four stages of scheduling focused on energy consumption and average response time. The results presented confirm the consistency of the proposal as it controls energy consumption and the quality of services requested by different users of a large-scale private cloud.

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