Description: (Same as Computer Science M213B.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course M16 or Computer Science M51A. Recommended: course M116C or Computer Science M151B, and Computer Science 111. System-level management and cross-layer methods for power and energy consumption in computing and communication at various scales ranging across embedded, mobile, personal, enterprise, and data-center scale. Computing, networking, sensing, and control technologies and algorithms for improving energy sustainability in human-cyber-physical systems. Topics include modeling of energy consumption, energy sources, and energy storage; dynamic power management; power-performance scaling and energy proportionality; duty-cycling; power-aware scheduling; low-power protocols; battery modeling and management; thermal management; sensing of power consumption. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0