Research Publications

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"Managing Plug-Loads for Demand Response within Building"
Thomas Weng, Bharathan Balaji, Seemanta Dutta, Rajesh Gupta, Yuvraj Agarwal
BuildSys 2011 -- In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings Seattle, November 2011.

"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Model-Based Power Characterization"
John McCullough, Yuvraj Agarwal, Jaideep Chandrashekhar, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy, Alex Snoeren, Rajesh K Gupta
USENIX ATC 2011 -- USENIX Annual Technical Conference Portland, June 2011.

"Duty-Cycling Buildings Aggressively: The Next Frontier in HVAC Control"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Bharathan Balaji, Seemanta Dutta, Rajesh K Gupta, Thomas Weng
IPSN/SPOTS 2011 -- International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Chicago, April 2011.

"Understanding the Role of Buildings in a Smart Microgrid"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Thomas Weng, and Rajesh Gupta
DATE 2011 -- Design and Test Europe France, March 2011.

"Occupancy-Driven Energy Management for Smart Building Automation"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Bharathan Balaji, Rajesh Gupta, Jacob Lyles, Michael Wei, and Thomas Weng
Buildsys 2010 -- 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings Zurich, Nov 2010.

"SleepServer: A Software-Only Approach for Reducing the Energy Consumption of PCs within Enterprise Environments"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Stefan Savage and Rajesh Gupta
USENIX 2010 -- Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference Boston, MA, June 2010.

"Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Focus on Smart Buildings"
Jan Kleissl and Yuvraj Agarwal
DAC 2010 -- Proceedings of the ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference Boston, MA, June 2010.

"MicroSystems Driving Smart Energy Metering in Smart Grids"
Yuvraj Agarwal and Thomas Weng and Rajesh Gupta
DAC.com -- Design Automation Conference KnowledgeBase Article, (Invited Paper) May 2010

"The Energy Dashboard: Improving the Visibility of Energy Consumption at a Campus-Wide Scale"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Thomas Weng and Rajesh Gupta
BuildSys 2009 -- First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings November 2009

"Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, James Scott, Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta
NSDI 2009 -- In Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation April 2009

"SoftSpeak: Making VoIP Play Fair in Existing 802.11 Deployments"
Patrick Verkaik, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta, and Alex C. Snoeren
NSDI 2009 -- In Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation April 2009

"SwitchR: Reducing System Power Consumption in a Multi-Clients, Multi-Radio Environment"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Trevor Pering, Roy Want, and Rajesh Gupta
ISWC 2008 -- In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2008

"WirelessWakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over WiFi Smartphones"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Ranveer Chandra, AlecWolman, Paramvir Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta
MobiSys 2007 -- In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services 2007

"CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices with Multiple Radio Interfaces"
Trevor Pering, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta, and Roy Want
MobiSys 2006 -- In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services 2006

"Dynamic Power Management using On Demand Paging for Networked Embedded Systems"
Yuvraj Agarwal, Curt Schurgers, and Rajesh Gupta
ASP-DAC 2005 -- In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Asia South Pacific Design Automation 2005