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A novel cloud data center (DC) model is studied here with cognitive capabilities for real-time (or online) flow compared to the batch tasks. Here, a DC can determine the cost of using resources and an online user or the user with batch…

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The paper is aimed at analyzing the potential of new information networks to solve the problems of energy management network with the use of renewable energy sources. One of the basic problems of renewable energy sources is their temporal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Kultan Jaroslav , Kultan Matej

Data centers (DCs) can help decarbonize the power grid by helping absorb renewable power (e.g., wind and solar) due to their ability to shift power loads across space and time. However, to harness such load-shifting flexibility, it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Weiqi Zhang , Line A. Roald , Victor M. Zavala

Industries are considering the adoption of cloud and edge computing for real-time applications due to current improvements in network latencies and the advent of Fog and Edge computing. Current cloud paradigms are not designed for real-time…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Isser Kadusale , Gautam Gala , Gerhard Fohler

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

One of the major issues with the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid is the increased uncertainty and variability that they bring. If this uncertainty is not sufficiently addressed, it will limit the further…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Joshua Comden , Zhenhua Liu , Yue Zhao

Fog computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to improve the efficiency and QoS of cloud computing by extending the cloud to the edge of the network. This paper develops a comprehensive energy efficiency analysis framework based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Hatem Alharbi , Taisir E. H. Elgorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

It is common for cloud data centers meeting unexpected loads like request bursts, which may lead to overloaded situation and performance degradation. Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling and VM consolidation have been proved effective to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Minxian Xu , Amir Vahid Dastjerdi , Rajkumar Buyya

Cloud platforms' growing energy demand and carbon emissions are raising concern about their environmental sustainability. The current approach to enabling sustainable clouds focuses on improving energy-efficiency and purchasing carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Noman Bashir , Tian Guo , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy , Ramesh Sitaraman , Abel Souza , Adam Wierman

Managing energy efficiency under timing constraints is an interesting and big challenge. This work proposes an accurate power model in data centers for time-constrained servers in Cloud computing. This model, as opposed to previous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Teresa Higuera , José L. Risco-Martín , Patricia Arroba , José L. Ayala

The energy consumption of data centers assumes a significant fraction of the world's overall energy consumption. Most data centers are statically provisioned, leading to a very low average utilization of servers. In this work, we survey…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jonas Hübotter

The rapid growth of the digital economy and artificial intelligence has transformed cloud data centers into essential infrastructure with substantial energy consumption and carbon emission, necessitating effective energy management.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yimeng Sun , Zhaohao Ding , Payman Dehghanian , Fei Teng

"Geographic Load Balancing" is a strategy for reducing the energy cost of data centers spreading across different terrestrial locations. In this paper, we focus on load balancing among micro-datacenters powered by renewable energy sources.…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Giovanni Neglia , Matteo Sereno , Giuseppe Bianchi

In virtualized computing platforms, energy consumption is related to the computing-plus-communication processes. However, most of the proposed energy consumption models and energy saving solutions found in literature consider only the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Thembelihle Dlamini , Ángel Fernandez Gambın

The rapid cloud computing growth has turned data center energy consumption into a global problem. At the same time, modern cloud providers operate multiple geographically-distributed data centers. Distributed data center infrastructure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Dražen Lučanin , Ivona Brandic

The exploding power consumption of AI and cloud datacenters (DCs) intensifies the long-standing concerns about their carbon footprint, especially because DCs' need for constant power clashes with volatile renewable generation needed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Liuzixuan Lin , Andrew A. Chien

In order to reduce the energy cost of data centers, recent studies suggest distributing computation workload among multiple geographically dispersed data centers, by exploiting the electricity price difference. However, the impact of data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Hao Wang , Jianwei Huang , Xiaojun Lin , Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

Data centers are among the fastest growing electricity consumers and can impose severe voltage drops and feeder losses when connected to weak distribution networks. This paper formulates a techno economic siting problem in which each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Amin Hajihasani , Mahmoud Modaresi

In ours days data centers provide the global community an indispensable service: nearly unlimited access to almost any kind of information we can imagine by supporting most Internet services such as: Web hosting and E-commerce services.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Iulia Dumitru , Grigore Stamatescu , Ioana Fagarasan , Sergiu Stelian Iliescu

Both the training and use of Large Language Models (LLMs) require large amounts of energy. Their increasing popularity, therefore, raises critical concerns regarding the energy efficiency and sustainability of data centers that host them.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Grant Wilkins , Srinivasan Keshav , Richard Mortier