@inproceedings{727943e33e0546cda5e55436b5cd7a94,
title = "Ocelot: A wireless sensor network and computing engine with commodity palmtop computers",
abstract = "The embedded class processors found in commodity palmtop computers continue to become increasingly capable while retaining an energy-efficient footprint. Palmtop computers themselves, including smartphones and tablets, provide a small form factor system integrating wireless communication and non-volatile storage with these energy-efficient processors. In this paper, we present Ocelot, a grid-like computing environment that leverages palmtop computers in place of traditional workstation or server class machines to compute highly parallel light to medium-weight tasks in an energy efficient manner. Ocelot is motivated to be used in a wireless sensor network environment where palmtop computers with onboard or attached sensors form nodes to obtain and process sensor data. Using a centralized server/dashboard, data processing jobs and managed and distributed to these palmtop computers to compute the results in parallel. Our results demonstrate that these palmtop machines provide significant energy advantage - average of 67% in our case study - over energy-optimized desktop, high-performance workstation and server class machines.",
keywords = "Distributed computing, energy, palmtop devices, parallelism, wireless sensor network",
author = "Haifeng Xu and Bilec, {Melissa M.} and Schaefer, {Laura A.} and Landis, {Amy E.} and Jones, {Alex K.}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/IGCC.2013.6604482",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781479906222",
series = "2013 International Green Computing Conference Proceedings, IGCC 2013",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
booktitle = "2013 International Green Computing Conference Proceedings, IGCC 2013",
note = "2013 International Green Computing Conference, IGCC 2013 ; Conference date: 27-06-2013 Through 29-06-2013",
}