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At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Zhiyong Liu

Energy storage systems (ESSs) are essential components of the future smart grid to smooth out the fluctuating output of renewable energy generators. However, installing large number of ESSs for individual energy consumers may not be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Katayoun Rahbar , Mohammad R. Vedady Moghadam , Sanjib Kumar Panda , Thomas Reindl

This paper investigates smart home energy management in consideration of tradeoffs between residential privacy and energy costs. A multiobjective approach that minimizes energy costs and maximizes privacy protection is proposed. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Hsuan-Hao Chang , Wei-Yu Chiu , Hongjian Sun , Chia-Ming Chen

This paper discusses how usage patterns and preferences of inhabitants can be learned efficiently to allow smart homes to autonomously achieve energy savings. We propose a frequent sequential pattern mining algorithm suitable for real-life…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Daniel Schweizer , Michael Zehnder , Holger Wache , Hans-Friedrich Witschel , Danilo Zanatta , Miguel Rodriguez

Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

The prospective participation of smart buildings in the electricity system is strongly related to the increasing active role of demand-side resources in the electrical grid. In addition, the growing penetration of smart meters and recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Ricardo Fernández-Blanco , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

Energy storage in data centers has mainly been used as devices to backup generators during power outages. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using energy storage devices to actively shape power consumption in data centers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Yuanyuan Shi , Bolun Xu , Baosen Zhang , Di Wang

The idea of changing our energy system from a hierarchical design into a set of nearly independent microgrids becomes feasible with the availability of small renewable energy generators. The smart microgrid concept comes with several…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Anita Sobe , Wilfried Elmenreich

United Nations set Sustainable Development Goals and this paper focuses on 7th (Affordable and Clean Energy), 9th (Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure), and 13th (Climate Action) goals. Climate change is a major concern in our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Alberto Pasqualetto , Lorenzo Serafini , Michele Sprocatti

We present a large real-world dataset obtained from monitoring a smart company facility over the course of six years, from 2018 to 2023. The dataset includes energy consumption data from various facility areas and components, energy…

This paper presents a methodology for allocating energy consumption to multiple users of shared data center machines, infrastructure, and software. Google uses this methodology to provide carbon reporting data for enterprise customers of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ian Schneider , Taylor Mattia

Traditionally, the development of computing systems has been focused on performance improvements driven by the demand of applications from consumer, scientific and business domains. However, the ever increasing energy consumption of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Anton Beloglazov , Rajkumar Buyya , Young Choon Lee , Albert Zomaya

A number of governments and organizations around the world agree that the first step to address national and international problems such as energy independence, global warming or emergency resilience, is the redesign of electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Marıa Arenas-Martınez , Sergio Herrero-Lopez , Abel Sanchez , John R. Williams , Paul Roth , Paul Hofmann , Alexander Zeier

An issue of great concern as it relates to global warming is power consumption and efficient use of computers especially in large data centers. Data centers have an important role in IT infrastructures because of their huge power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Aryan Azimzadeh , Nasseh Tabrizi

The contemporary era is marked by rapid urban growth and increasing population. A significant, and constantly growing, portion of the global population now resides in major cities, leading to escalating energy demands in urban centers. As…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Georgios Kormpakis , Alexios Lekidis , Elissaios Sarmas , Giannis Papias , Filippos Serepas , George Stravodimos , Vangelis Marinakis

Data center operators are typically faced with three significant problems when running their data centers, i.e., rising electricity bills, growing carbon footprints and unexpected power outages. To mitigate these issues, running data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Liang Yu , Tao Jiang , Yulong Zou

This paper investigates the existing resource management approaches in Cloud Data Centres for energy and thermal efficiency. It identifies the need for integrated computing and cooling systems management and learning-based solutions in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Shashikant Ilager , Rajkumar Buyya

Nowadays cloud computing adoption as a form of hosted application and services is widespread due to decreasing costs of hardware, software, and maintenance. Cloud enables access to a shared pool of virtual resources hosted in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Niloofar Gholipour , Ehsan Arianyan , Rajkumar Buyya

During the production, distribution, and consumption of energy, a large quantity of data is generated. For efficiently using of energy resources other supplementary data such as building information, weather, and environmental data etc. are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Muhammad Aslam Jarwar , Sajjad Ali , Ilyoung Chong

In office spaces, the ratio of energy consumption of air conditioning and lighting for maintaining the environment comfort is about 70%. On the other hand, many people claim being dissatisfied with the temperature of the air conditioning.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Guillaume Lopez , Takuya Aoki , Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu , Anna Yokokubo