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It is estimated that data centers constitute 1.5% of global electricity usage. At the same time, to serve increasing user requirements, modern cloud providers are operating multiple geographically distributed data centers. Distributed data…

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This paper considers a Markov decision model for profit maximization of a cloud computing service provider catering to customers submitting jobs with firm real-time random deadlines. Customers are charged on a per-job basis, receiving a…

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An electricity bill of a data center (DC) is determined not only by how much energy the DC consumes, but especially by how the consumed energy is spread over time during the billing cycle. More specifically, these electricity costs are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mehiar Dabbagh , Bechir Hamdaoui , Ammar Rayes

An operator-assisted user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiquitous Internet connectivity, without significantly increasing the network infrastructure investment. In this paper, we consider such a network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Lin Gao , Jianwei Huang , Babak Hossein Khalaj

In the traditional mobile edge computing (MEC) system, the availability of MEC services is greatly limited for the edge users of the cell due to serious signal attenuation and inter-cell interference. User-centric MEC (UC-MEC) can be seen…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Langtian Qin , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Zhuojia Gu , Dan Zhao , Feng Wu

Cloud computing is becoming an essential component of modern computer and communication systems. The available resources at the cloud such as computing nodes, storage, databases, etc. are often packaged in the form of virtual machines (VMs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) enables utilities to obtain granular energy consumption data, which offers a unique opportunity to design customer segmentation strategies based on their impact on various operational metrics in…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-13 Yuxuan Yuan , Kaveh Dehghanpour , Fankun Bu , Zhaoyu Wang

Dynamic resource management is essential for optimizing computational efficiency in modern high-performance computing (HPC) environments, particularly as systems scale. While research has demonstrated the benefits of malleability in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Sergio Iserte , Iker Martín-Álvarez , Krzysztof Rojek , José I. Aliaga , Maribel Castillo , Weronika Folwarska , Antonio J. Peña

Realizing a shared responsibility between providers and consumers is critical to manage the sustainability of HPC. However, while cost may motivate efficiency improvements by infrastructure operators, broader progress is impeded by a lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Alok Kamatar , Maxime Gonthier , Valerie Hayot-Sasson , Andre Bauer , Marcin Copik , Torsten Hoefler , Raul Castro Fernandez , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

We consider a seller who offers services to a buyer with multi-unit demand. Prior to the realization of demand, the buyer receives a noisy signal of their future demand, and the seller can design contracts based on the reported value of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-13 Dirk Bergemann , Michael C. Wang

The Cloud infrastructure offers to end users a broad set of heterogenous computational resources using the pay-as-you-go model. These virtualized resources can be provisioned using different pricing models like the unreliable model where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Panagiotis Oikonomou , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Nikos Tziritas , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Thanasis Loukopoulos , Georgios Stamoulis

Demand response (DR) plays a critical role in ensuring efficient electricity consumption and optimal use of network assets. Yet, existing DR models often overlook a crucial element, the irrational behaviour of electricity end users. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Nam Trong Dinh , Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi , Rui Yuan , S. Ali Pourmousavi , Mingyu Guo , Jon A. R. Liisberg , Julian Lemos-Vinasco

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

We study a general model on reusable resource allocation under model uncertainty. A heterogeneous population of customers arrive at the decision maker's (DM's) platform sequentially. Upon observing a customer's type, the DM selects an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while much work has been done in this area,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Carlee Joe-Wong , Soumya Sen

Demand-side management presents significant benefits in reducing the energy load in smart grids by balancing consumption demands or including energy generation and/or storage devices in the user's side. These techniques coordinate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Javier Zazo , Santiago Zazo , Sergio Valcarcel Macua

Cloud providers have introduced pricing models to incentivize long-term commitments of compute capacity. These long-term commitments allow the cloud providers to get guaranteed revenue for their investments in data centers and computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Murray Stokely , Neel Nadgir , Jack Peele , Orestis Kostakis

We study an electricity market clearing formulation that seeks to remunerate spatio-temporal, load-shifting flexibility provided by data centers (DaCes). Load-shifting flexibility is a key asset for power grid operators as they aim to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Weiqi Zhang , Victor M. Zavala

In this paper, a re-evaluation undertaken for dynamic VM consolidation problem and optimal online deterministic algorithms for the single VM migration in an experimental environment. We proceeded to focus on energy and performance trade-off…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

Optimizing resource allocation for analytical workloads is vital for reducing costs of cloud-data services. At the same time, it is incredibly hard for users to allocate resources per query in serverless processing systems, and they…