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Datacenters (DCs), deployed in a large scale to support the ever increasing demand for data processing applications, consume tremendous energy. Powering DCs with renewable energy can effectively reduce the brown energy consumption. Owing to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Liang Zhang , Tao Han , Nirwan Ansari

In the context of building electrification, the operation of distributed energy resources integrating multiple energy carriers (electricity, heat, mobility) poses a significant challenge due to the nonlinear device dynamics, uncertainty,…

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Neglecting consumers' comfort always leads to failure or slow-response to demand response request. In this paper, we propose several comprehensive comfort level models for various appliances in campus-based commercial buildings (CBs). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Zheming Liang , Desong Bian , Dawei Su , Ruisheng Diao , Di Shi , Zhiwei Wang , Wencong Su

Burstable billing is widely adopted in practice, e.g., by colocation data center providers, to charge for their users, e.g., data centers, for data transferring. However, there is still a lack of research on what the best way is for a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Yong Zhan , Mahdi Ghamkhari , Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi , Du Xu , Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

In this paper, we introduce MARS, a new scheduling system for HPC-cloud infrastructures based on a cost-aware, flexible reinforcement learning approach, which serves as an intermediate layer for next generation HPC-cloud resource manager.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Betis Baheri , Jacob Tronge , Bo Fang , Ang Li , Vipin Chaudhary , Qiang Guan

The adoption of market-based principles in resource management systems for computational infrastructures such as grids and clusters allows for matching demand and supply for resources in a utility maximizing manner. As such, they offer a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 K. Abdelkader , J. Broeckhove , K. Vanmechelen

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wenlong Ni , Yuhong Zhang , Wei Li

The rapid growth of GPU-heavy data centers has significantly increased electricity demand and creating challenges for grid stability. Our paper investigates the extent to which an energy-aware job scheduling algorithm can provide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yiru Ji , Constance Crozier , Matthew Liska

In mobile edge computing (MEC), task offloading can significantly reduce task execution latency and energy consumption of end user (EU). However, edge server (ES) resources are limited, necessitating efficient allocation to ensure the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yun Xia , Hai Xue , Di Zhang , Shahid Mumtaz , Xiaolong Xu , Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

The rapid expansion of cloud computing and data center infrastructure has led to significant energy consumption, posing environmental challenges due to the growing carbon footprint. This research explores energy-aware management strategies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rabab Khan Rongon , Krishna Das

The cloud datacenter has numerous hosts as well as application requests where resources are dynamic. The demands placed on the resource allocation are diverse. These factors could lead to load imbalances, which affect scheduling efficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Sakshi Chhabra , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Demand response has been implemented by distribution system operators to reduce peak demand and mitigate contingency issues on distribution lines and substations. Specifically, the campus based commercial buildings make the major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Zheming Liang , Desong Bian , Xiaohu Zhang , Di Shi , Ruisheng Diao , Zhiwei Wang

The rapid advancement of AI and other emerging technologies has triggered exponential growth in computing resources demand. Faced with prohibitive infrastructure costs for large-scale computing clusters, users are increasingly resorting to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhengyan Deng , Yusen Zheng , Chenliang Sheng , Shaowen Qin

The advent of High Performance Computing (HPC) has provided the computational capacity required for power system operators (SO) to obtain solutions in the least time to highly-complex applications, i.e., Unit Commitment (UC). The UC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mushfiqur R. Sarker , Jianhui Wang

In this paper, we consider a community energy storage (CES) system that is shared by various electricity consumers who want to charge and discharge the CES throughout a given time span. We study the problem facing the manager of such a CES…

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In this paper, the resource management problem in geographically distributed cloud systems is considered. The Follow Me Cloud concept which enables service migration across federated data centers (DCs) is adopted. Therefore, there are two…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiadi Chen , Hang Long , Qiang Zheng , Minyao Xing , Wenbo Wang

The increasing integration of renewable energy sources results in fluctuations in carbon intensity throughout the day. To mitigate their carbon footprint, datacenters can implement demand response (DR) by adjusting their load based on grid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Jiali Xing , Bilge Acun , Aditya Sundarrajan , David Brooks , Manoj Chakkaravarthy , Nikky Avila , Carole-Jean Wu , Benjamin C. Lee

Demand response provides utilities with a mechanism to share with end users the stochasticity resulting from the use of renewable sources. Pricing is accordingly used to reflect energy availability, to allocate such a limited resource to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Andrea Monacchi , Wilfried Elmenreich

Large-scale integration of renewable energy sources (RES) brings huge challenges to the power system. A cost-effective reserve deployment and uncertainty pricing mechanism are critical to deal with the uncertainty and variability of RES. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Zongzheng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Li Guo , Linquan Bai , Chengshan Wang

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei