Dr. Ken Christensen, in partnership with Dr. Reviriego of the Universidad  Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain), was granted a Google Research  Award of $10,000 to explore new network protocol semantics and  primitives to enable coordinated scheduling of data bursts across multiple time scales and protocol layers to achieve energy savings in  client devices and potentially also in servers within data centers. 

This one year project will employ an REU student to assist a graduate  student in completing the research. For this project, new scheduling  methods will be designed, modeled and implemented. A prototype will be  evaluated to be able to predict the expected large-scale energy  savings and performance trade-offs from the new methods.