Green Computing & Communications

Project goals and objectives

To introduce a Green Computing & Communications programme for master students in UA and RU universities.

Partnership

• University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK;
• Leeds Metropolitan University, UK;
• Zilinska Univerzita v Ziline, Slovakia;
• University of Ioannina, Greece;
• Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy;
• Belgorod State Technological University n. a. V.G Shukhov, Russia;
• North-Caucasus State Technical University, Russia;
• Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia;
• Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, Russia;
• Institute of problems of precision mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;
• National Aerospace University «Kharkiv Aviation Institute», Ukraine;
• Odesa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine;
• Donbass State Technical University, Ukraine;
• Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine;
• G.Ye. Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering, Ukraine;
• Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Results project

• 9 modules as a part of 4 study courses are developed:
  • Master course Foundations of Green IT-engineering
    • Module 4 Recourse-based approach to green IT-engineering
  • Master course Green Hardware and Programmable Systems
    • Module 1 Bases of the green hardware and its feature in development of microcontrollers
    • Module 2 The modern green decisions in processors
    • Module 3 Installations for green FPGA
    • Module 4 Assessment of the current state of green technologies and perspectives of their development
  • Master course Technologies of Green Communication
    • Module 1 Bases of green network technologies
    • Module 2 Energy saving traffic management on networks
  • PhD course Green Software
    • Module 1 Bases of the green software development
    • Module 2 Methods of reliable and sustainable software
• Lecture material and practical works is published in the following books:
  • Green IT-Engineering. Vol. 1. Principles, Components and Models  / Kharchenko V. (editor) – 593 p. Ukraine: National Aerospace University KhAI (2014)
    • Chapter 2 RESOURCE APPROACH TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (pp. 89 – 139)
    • Chapter 5 EXPERIMENTS WITH GREEN FPGA AND PROCESSORS (pp. 194 – 240)
    • Chapter 8 BASES OF THE GREEN SOFTWARE (pp. 298 – 321)
• Green IT-Engineering. Vol. 2. Systems, Industry, Society / Kharchenko V. (editor) – 688 p. Ukraine: National Aerospace University KhAI (2014)
  • Chapter 16 Energy efficient methods of management of a traffic on the heterogeneous computer networks (pp. 12 – 49)
• Green hardware and programmable systems. Practicum / Drozd A., Kharchenko V. (editors) – 117 p. Ukraine: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Aerospace University KhAI (2015).
• Foundations of green IT engineering. Simulation of cloudy systems. Practicum / Kharchenko V.S., Drozd A.V., Ponochovny Yu.L., Yanovskaya O.V., Yanovsky M.E., Krivtsov A.Yu., Ivanchenko O.V. / Kharchenko V.S. (editor) – 168 p. Ukraine: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Aerospace University KhAI (2016).
  • Chapter 2 Resource-based approach in green IT (pp. 31 – 43)
• Energy efficient methods of management of a traffic on the heterogeneous computer networks. Practicum / Drozd A., Kharchenko V. (editors) – 100 p. Ukraine: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Aerospace University KhAI (2016).

Post-results project

• Modules of the master courses developed within the project are implemented in educational process of ONPU in disciplines:
  • Design and diagnostics of safety-related systems (DDSRS). The DDSRS course is developed within two European educational projects: TEMPUS SAFEGUARD "National Safeware Engineering Network of Centres of Innovative Academia-Industry Handshaking" (158886-TEMPUS-1-2009-1-UK-TEMPUS-JPCR) (informative modules 2 and 3) and TEMPUS GREENCO – informative modules 1, 4 and 5:
    • Resource-based approach to green IT engineering.
    • Bases of the green hardware and its feature in development of microcontrollers.
    • Installations for green FPGA.
• Research and design of computer systems and networks (RDCSN). The RDCSN course is developed in case of TEMPUS GREENCO project implementation – informative modules 3 and 6:
  • Green technologies of design of wired computer networks.
  • Green technologies of design of wireless computer networks.
• Material of modules is tested at the international conferences and published in scientific articles (35 citations in Scopus) and also in 4 sections of two books of the Studies in Systems, Decision and Control series of Springer publishing house.
  • Kharchenko, V., Kondratenko, Y., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.): Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Models, Complex Systems Architectures, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Vol. 74. Berlin. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing (2017), 305 p. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44162-7
  • Chapter 3 Drozd, J., Drozd, A., Antoshchuk, Green IT engineering in the view of resource-based approach. In book: Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Models, Complex Systems Architectures, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, V. Kharchenko, Y. Kondratenko, J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Vol. 74. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 43–65 (2017), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44162-7_3
  • Chapter 6 Maevsky, D.A., Maevskaya, E.J. and Stetsuyk, D. Evaluating the RAM Energy Consumption at the Stage of Software Development. In book: Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Models, Complex Systems Architectures, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, V. Kharchenko, Y. Kondratenko, J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Vol. 74. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 101–121 (2017), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44162-7_6
  • Kharchenko, V., Kondratenko, Y., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.): Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Components, Networks and Systems Implementation, Vol. 105. Berlin. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing (2017), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44162-7
  • Chapter 8 Maevsky, D. A., Maevskaya, E. J., Stetsuyk, E. D., Shapa N., Malicious Software Effect on the Mobile Devices Power Consumption. In book: Green IT Engineering: Components, Networks and Systems Implementation, V. Kharchenko, Y. Kondratenko, J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Vol. 105. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 155–171 (2017), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55595-9_8
  • Chapter 11 Drozd, A., Drozd, J., Antoshchuk, , Antonyuk, V., Zashcholkin, K., Drozd, M., Titomir, O. Green Experiments with FPGA. In book: Green IT Engineering: Components, Networks and Systems Implementation, V. Kharchenko, Y. Kondratenko, J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Vol. 105. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 219–239 (2017), DOI:  10.1007/978-3-319-55595-9_11
• The student's club of inventors is organized on the basis of the resource approach developed in the project. 59 applications for the useful models (13) and inventions (46) with an involvement of 7 graduate students and 70 students are submitted. 32 patents and the positive decisions (13 useful models and 19 inventions) in collaboration with 6 graduate students and 33 students are taken already out.

• Eligibility and synergy Tempus / Erasmus+ projects

The important component of green technologies is connected to safety concerns which are most expressed on objects of the increased risk in the safety-related systems. Each anticipated technogenic accident preserves a huge number of resources, including human lives. Accidents on power stations and on power networks lead to huge losses of the electric power owing to stops in its framing and delivery. The subject of the functional safety began to be developed in the National Safeware Engineering Network of Centres of Innovative Academia-Industry Handshaking (158886-TEMPUS-1-2009-1-UK-TEMPUS-JPCR) TEMPUS SAFEGUARD project. The problem of the hidden faults which can be accumulated for many years of a normal mode was revealed and be shown in the most responsible emergency mode, reducing fault tolerаnce of systems on which their functional safety is based. In the TEMPUS GREENCO project this referral was got by continuation in resource-based approach. on a problem of the hidden faults 2 master's theses are defended in 2014:

• Sulima J. J. Methods of estimation and increase in checkability of digital devices for on-line testing of safety-critical systems (research supervisor prof. Drozd O. V.).
• Drozd M. Models and methods of eliminating the hidden faults and their activity for digital components of safety-related instrumentation and control systems. (research supervisor prof. Antoshchuk S. G.).

In 2016 the dissertation of Sugak Anna titled Models and methods of synthesys of behavior tests for information systems based on evolutionary-genetic technologies (research supervisor assoc. prof. Martinyuk O. M.) is defended. Now the PhD thesis of the postgraduate student Al-Dabi M. M. by methods of increase in reliability of results in digital components of safety-related systems prepares for protection. At the final stage there is a PhD thesis of the postgraduate student Nikul V. V. devoted to increase in efficiency of the digital components constructed on FPGA. Obtained results include the material made within the project by development of the practicum.

Practices of the TEMPUS GREENCO project found continuation in student's and postgraduate startups of the TEMPUS CABRIOLET project and smart things of the ERASMUS+ ALIOT project. The laboratory operation prepared on the TEMPUS GREENCO project with an involvement of the postgraduate student Surkov S.S. received continuation in cases of startups of the TEMPUS Cabriolet project as "The smart house" which has perspectives in the ERASMUS+ ALIOT project.

One of aspects of safety is connected to a human factor, his health.

The student's "PulseGuard" project of rendering the emergency help in case of heart failure shall become an important component of the smart city. The startup of "EMC Cable" aimed at improvement of quality of the electric power in power cables can also become such component.

The student's "Mevics" project which benefited in 2015 the fight of startups of "GreenSup" organized on two TEMPUS GREENCO and TEMPUS CABRIOLET projects in 2016 received $0,5 million investments.

Contacts

Oleksandr Drozd,

tel. +38 (067) 687-38-80,

e-mail: drozd@ukr.net