I. INTRODUCTION  
II. A GENERAL UTILIZATION-DEPENDENT COMPONENT (UDC) MODEL  
III. COMMONLY USED POCMC MODELS  
A. Utilization ratio and workload models  
B. Energy harvesting models  
IV. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS  
V. REMOTE ESTIMATION ACROSS A PACKET-DROP LINK POWERED BY ENERGY HARVESTING  
A. Packet-drop links powered by energy harvesting  
B. Design of remote estimation systems: problem definitions  
C. Uncontrolled transmission: optimal policies  
D. Controlled transmissions without packet drops  
E. Controlled transmissions with packet drops and perfect feedback  
VI. SCHEDULING: QUEUEING SYSTEMS WITH TIME-VARYING PARAMETERS, AND WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER  
A. Queueing systems with time-varying parameters  
B. Wireless energy transfer  
VII. MOTIVATING EXAMPLE: A SINGLE SERVER WITH UTILIZATION-DEPENDENT SERVICE RATE  
A. Setup: a UDC model  
B. Throughput-optimal task scheduling policies  
C. Utilization rate minimizing task scheduling policies  
D. Discussion  
VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS  
A. Noisy channels for remote estimation  
B. Queueing, remote estimation and age of information  
C. Feasible region and trade-off among performance metrics  
D. Secure remote estimation powered by energy harvesting  
E. Systems with multiple UDCs and development of a new theory for large systems with many UDCs  
F. UDC in learning