Title of Dissertation: THE IMPACT OF ENERY SAVING POLICIES ON INDUSTRIES IN CHINA Junming Zhu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Matthias Ruth School of Public Policy Current design and implementation of China’s energy saving policies are characterized by multiple, mixed policy instruments and spatially based regulatory disparity. The dissertation replies on interviews, firm-lev...

The goal of this paper is to present a design methodology for developing energy aware algorithms. The key idea revolves around identifying operations called kernels, which are frequently used operations in the algorithm that can be implemented in hardware. Optimising these kernels for performance or energy would then lead to a major impact in energy saving. We propose a six-step methodology for...

Since it is difficult to replace batteries of the sensor nodes that are once deployed in the field, energy saving is one of the most critical issues for object tracking in wireless sensor networks. It is desirable that only the nodes surrounding the mobile target should be responsible for observing the target to save the energy consumption and extend the network lifetime as well by reducing the...

Due to the increasing interest on renewable sources in recent years, the studies on integration of distributed generation to the power grid have rapidly increased. In order to minimize line losses of power systems, it is crucially important to define the size and location of local generation to be placed. Minimizing the losses in the system would bring two types of saving, in real life, one is ...

Due to the increasing interest on renewable sources in recent years, the studies on integration of distributed generation to the power grid have rapidly increased. In order to minimize line losses of power systems, it is crucially important to define the size and location of local generation to be placed. Minimizing the losses in the system would bring two types of saving, in real life, one is ...

Interactions of energy policies with water technology development in China are investigated using a hybrid input-output model and scenario analysis. The implementation of energy policies and water technology development can produce co-benefits for each other. Water saving potential of energy technology development is much larger than that of new energy exploitation. From the viewpoint of propor...

In this paper, an IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area networks (WBAN) medium access control protocol is developed to support a wireless USB (WUSB) application as a protocol adaptation layer (PAL). Due to portable and wearable nature, the WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical medium access control (MAC) protocol has to support the power saving operation and integrate WUSB transactions with WBAN traf...