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The energy demands of data centers are increasing and are expected to grow exponentially. Reducing the energy consumption of data centers decreases operational expenses, as well as their carbon footprint. We design techniques to reduce data…

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The overall performance of the development of computing systems has been engrossed on enhancing demand from the client and enterprise domains. but, the intake of ever-increasing energy for computing systems has commenced to bound in…

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Demand charge, a utility fee based on an electricity customer's peak power consumption, often constitutes a significant portion of costs for commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging station operators. This paper explores control methods to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Thibaud Cambronne , Samuel Bobick , Wente Zeng , Scott Moura

High Performance Computing is an internet based computing which makes computer infrastructure and services available to the user for research purpose. However, an important issue which needs to be resolved before High Performance Computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Vivek Chalotra , Anju Bhasin , Anik Gupta , Sanjeev Singh Sambyal , Sanjay Mahajan

Saving energy is an important issue for cloud providers to reduce energy cost in a data center. With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, it is time to examine various energy reduction methods for which energy consumption could be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

Datacenters running on-line, data-intensive applications (OLDIs) consume significant amounts of energy. However, reducing their energy is challenging due to their tight response time requirements. A key aspect of OLDIs is that each user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Balajee Vamanan , Hamza Bin Sohail , Jahangir Hasan , T. N. Vijaykumar

We consider energy minimization for data-intensive applications run on large number of servers, for given performance guarantees. We consider a system, where each incoming application is sent to a set of servers, and is considered to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ajay Badita , Rooji Jinan , Balajee Vamanan , Parimal Parag

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, datacenters are becoming more important than ever before. A typical datacenter typically consists of a large number of homogeneous or heterogeneous servers connected by networks.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Aftab Ahmed Chandio , Zhibin Yu , Feroz Shah Syed , Imtiaz Ali Korejo

As the Data Science field continues to mature, and we collect more data, the demand to store and analyze them will continue to increase. This increase in data availability and demand for analytics will put a strain on data centers and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Justin Gould

The power consumption of enormous network devices in data centers has emerged as a big concern to data center operators. Despite many traffic-engineering-based solutions, very little attention has been paid on performance-guaranteed energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Lin Wang , Fa Zhang , Kai Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Shaolei Ren , Zhiyong Liu

With the current high levels of energy consumption of data centers, reducing power consumption by even a small percentage is beneficial. We propose a framework for thermal-aware workload distribution in a data center to reduce cooling power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Somayye Rostami , Douglas G. Down , George Karakostas

Energy saving is becoming an important issue in the design and use of computer networks. In this work we propose a problem that considers the use of rate adaptation as the energy saving strategy in networks. The problem is modeled as an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Lin Wang , Antonio Fernández Anta , Fa Zhang , Chenying Hou , Zhiyong Liu

Data centers are significant contributors to carbon emissions and can strain power systems due to their high electricity consumption. To mitigate this impact and to participate in demand response programs, cloud computing companies strive…

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Worldwide, Geo-distributed Data Centers (GDCs) provide computing and storage services for massive workflow applications, resulting in high electricity costs that vary depending on geographical locations and time. How to reduce electricity…

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The critical need for clean and economical sources of energy is transforming data centers that are primarily energy consumers to also energy producers. We focus on minimizing the operating costs of next-generation data centers that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Jinlong Tu , Lian Lu , Minghua Chen , Ramesh K. Sitaraman

Internet-scale distributed systems such as content delivery networks (CDNs) operate hundreds of thousands of servers deployed in thousands of data center locations around the globe. Since the energy costs of operating such a large IT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Vimal Mathew , Ramesh K. Sitaraman , Prashant Shenoy

The increasing popularity of cloud computing has resulted in a proliferation of data centers. Effective placement of data centers improves network performance and minimizes clients' perceived latency. The problem of determining the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wuqiong Luo , Wee Peng Tay , Peng Sun , Yonggang Wen

With the increasing popularity of Cloud computing and Mobile computing, individuals, enterprises and research centers have started outsourcing their IT and computational needs to on-demand cloud services. Recently geographical load…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Muhammad Abdullah Adnan , Ryo Sugihara , Rajesh Gupta

The deployment of business critical applications and information infrastructures are moving to the cloud. This means they are hosted in large scale data centers with other business applications and infrastructures with less (or none)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Roberto Baldoni , Mario Caruso , Adriano Cerocchi , Claudio Ciccotelli , Luca Montanari , Luca Nicoletti

In this paper, we consider the electricity cost minimization problem in a residential network where each community is equipped with a distributed power generation source and every household in the community has a set of essential and…

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