Date Topic Suggested Readings Presented by
06/09 Course Logistics
11/09 Introduction to Sustainable Computing — Opportunities and Challenges "Recipe for Efficiency: Principles of Power-Aware Computing", Communications of the ACM'10
"Home Automation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities", CHI'11
"How Internet Concepts and Technologies Can Help Green and Smarten the Electrical Grid", SIGCOMM CCR'11
"Computing Research for Sustainability", The National Academies Press'12
"Urban Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology'14
13/09 Platforms for Smart Buildings - Part 1 "An Operating System for the Home", NSDI'12 Omid
"BOSS: Building Operating System Services", NSDI'13 Omid
18/09 Platforms for Smart Buildings - Part 2 "BuildingDepot 2.0: An Integrated Management System for Building Analysis and Control", BuildSys'13 Omid
"Zodiac: Organizing Large Deployment of Sensors to Create Reusable Applications for Buildings", BuildSys'15 Omid
20/09 Occupancy Sensing (New Sensor Networks) "Duty-Cycling Buildings Aggressively: The Next Frontier in HVAC Control", IPSN'11 Christoph
"POEM: Power-Efficient Occupancy-Based Energy Management System", IPSN'13 Alan
25/09 Occupancy Sensing (Existing Infrastructure) "Non-Intrusive Techniques for Establishing Occupancy Related Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings", BuildSys'16 Omid
"iSchedule: Campus-scale HVAC Scheduling via Mobile WiFi Monitoring", eEnergy'17 Sepehr
27/09 Energy/Water Monitoring and Apportionment "DoubleDip: Leveraging Thermoelectric Harvesting for Low Power Monitoring of Sporadic Water Use", SenSys'12 Shadan
"Energytrack: Sensor-driven Energy Use Analysis System", BuildSys’13 Madi
02/10 Intelligent Building Control "Reducing Transient and Steady State Electricity Consumption in HVAC Using Learning-Based Model-Predictive Control" Proc. IEEE'12 Mohammad
"Optimal Personal Comfort Management Using SPOT+", BuildSys'13 Madi
04/10 Energy Disaggregation "NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring", eEnergy'14 Mashrura
"PALDi: Online Load Disaggregation via Particle Filtering", J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement'15 Shadan
11/10 Smart Grid Communications, Data Management, and Analytics "Precision Micro-Synchrophasors for Distribution Systems: A Summary of Applications" J. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid'17 Omid
"Large-Scale Data Analysis of Power Grid Resilience across Multiple US Service Regions", J. Nature Energy'16 Baihong
16/10 Load Scheduling, Demand Response, and Incentive Design "nPlug: A Smart Plug for Alleviating Peak Loads", eEnergy'12 Christoph
"EnergyCoupon: A Case Study on Incentive-based Demand Response in Smart Grid", eEnergy'17 Hayden
18/10 Optimal Control of Distributed Energy Resources "Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging", eEnergy'13 Omid
"Distributed Rate Control for Smart Solar-powered Systems", eEnergy'17 Baihong
23/10 Mobility Modeling - Part 1 "Human Mobility Modeling at Metropolitan Scales", Mobisys'12 Abdulsalam
"ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing", Mobisys'12 Mashrura
25/10 Mobility Modeling - Part 2 "A Review of Urban Computing for Mobile Phone Traces: Current Methods, Challenges and Opportunities", UrbComp'13 Madi
"The Path Inference Filter: Model-Based Low-Latency Map Matching of Probe Vehicle Data", J. IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Sys.'14 Hayden
30/10 Urban/Infrastructure Planning "Urban computing with taxicabs", UbiComp '11 Christoph
"Discovering Regions of Different Functions in a City Using Human Mobility and POIs", KDD'12 Baihong
01/11 Energy Management in Software Systems "Green software engineering: the curse of methodology", IEEE SAER'16 D'Arcy
"An Empirical Study of the Energy Consumption of Android Applications", ICSME'14 Abdulsalam
06/11 Energy Management in Mobile Systems "Deep Green: modelling time-series of software energy consumption", ICSME'17 Stephen
"Carat: Collaborative Energy Diagnosis for Mobile Devices", SenSys'13 Alan
20/11 Energy-Efficient Networking "Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation", NSDI'08 Sepehr
"Avoiding the Rush Hours: WiFi Energy Management via Traffic Isolation", MobiSys'11 Abdulsalam
22/11 Reducing Carbon Footprint of Data Centre Networks "It’s Not Easy Being Green", SIGCOMM'12 Shadan
"Yank: Enabling Green Data Centers to Pull the Plug", NSDI'13 Sepehr
27/11 Security and Privacy - Part 1 "SunSpot: Exposing the Location of Anonymous Solar-powered Homes", BuildSys'16 Alan
"IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction", SP'17 Hayden
29/11 Security and Privacy - Part 2 "Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility", Scientific Reports'13 Mashrura
"Preventing Occupancy Detection from Smart Meter Data", J. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid'15 Vishruth