Abstract: The wireless local area network (WLAN) is one of the most popular wireless technologies offering connectivity today, and one of the candidates for the internet of things (IoTs). However, WLAN’s inefficiency in terms of complexity and relatively large power consumption compared with other wireless standards has been reported as a major barrier for IoTs applications. This paper proposes...

Natural interactions between water, soil, atmosphere, plants and microorganisms include physical, chemical and biological processes with decontaminating capacities. Natural or energy-saving wastewater treatment systems utilize these processes and thereby enable a sustainable management in the field of wastewater treatment, offering low investment and operation costs, little or no energy consump...

High energy consumption becomes an urgent problem in cloud datacenters. Based on virtualization technologies, the pay-as-you-go resource provision paradigm has become a trend. Specifically, Virtual Machine (VM) is the basic resource unit in data center for resource migration and provisioning. Many researches have been devoted to improve datacenter resource utilization and reduce power consumpti...

To meet policy requirements on increased transport energy efficiency and reduced emissions, smart control and management of vehicles and fleets have become important for the development of eco-friendly intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The emergence of new information and communication technologies and their applications, particularly vehicleto-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure comm...

Improved technology is often cited as a means to alter the otherwise difficult trade-off between the economic burden of regulation and environmental damage. Focusing on energy-saving technologies that mitigate the threat of climate change, we find that both energy prices and financial health influence technology adoption among a sample of industrial plants in four heavily polluting sectors. Bas...