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The Cloud Computing paradigm consists in providing customers with virtual services of the quality which meets customers' requirements. A cloud service operator is interested in using his infrastructure in the most efficient way while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Thomas Carli , Stéphane Henriot , Johanne Cohen , Joanna Tomasik

Today's cloud data centers are often distributed geographically to provide robust data services. But these geo-distributed data centers (GDDCs) have a significant associated environmental impact due to their increasing carbon emissions and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Sirui Qi , Dejan Milojicic , Cullen Bash , Sudeep Pasricha

This paper presents a solution to address carbon emission mitigation for end-to-end edge computing systems, including the computing at battery-powered edge devices and servers, as well as the communications between them. We design and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Hongyu Ke , Wanxin Jin , Haoxin Wang

Decarbonizing the energy sector is one of the main challenges to combat the climate crisis. Cities play an important role to reach climate neutrality as more than 70% of global CO2 emissions originate from urban areas. Decarbonization of…

The increase and rapid growth of data produced by scientific instruments, the Internet of Things (IoT), and social media is causing data transfer performance and resource consumption to garner much attention in the research community. The…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hasibul Jamil , Lavone Rodolph , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

This paper examines the problem of optimizing the charging pattern of electric vehicles (EV) by taking real-time electricity grid carbon intensity into consideration. The objective of the proposed charging scheme is to minimize the carbon…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Kai-Wen Cheng , Yuexin Bian , Yuanyuan Shi , Yize Chen

This paper addresses the joint scheduling problem of stochastic workloads and a hydrogen-enabled distributed energy system in a low-carbon Internet data centers (IDC). Although such workloads can be shifted over temporal and spatial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Maoyuan Ma , Wangyi Guo , Lei Yang , Zhanbo Xu , Xiaohong Guan

Motivated by an imperative to reduce the carbon emissions of cloud data centers, this paper studies the online carbon-aware resource scaling problem with unknown job lengths (OCSU) and applies it to carbon-aware resource scaling for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Roozbeh Bostandoost , Adam Lechowicz , Walid A. Hanafy , Noman Bashir , Prashant Shenoy , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

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

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

Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turning into using more energy-friendly hardware. Despite the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Stavros Harizopoulos , Mehul Shah , Justin Meza , Parthasarathy Ranganathan

Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Elvis Rodrigues , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Benedikt Pittl , Werner Mach , Erich Schikuta

To meet widely recognised carbon neutrality targets, over the last decade metropolitan regions around the world have implemented policies to promote the generation and use of sustainable energy. Nevertheless, there is an availability gap in…

General Economics · Economics 2022-12-15 Chunmeng Yang , Siqi Bu , Yi Fan , Wayne Xinwei Wan , Ruoheng Wang , Aoife Foley

Global climate challenge is demanding urgent actions for decarbonization, while electric power systems take the major roles in clean energy transition. Due to the existence of spatially and temporally dispersed renewable energy resources…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Xuan He , Danny H. K. Tsang , Yize Chen

Demand for energy has increased significantly across the globe due to increase in population and economic growth. Growth in energy demand poses serious threat to the environment since majority of the energy sources are non-renewable and…

With the increasing proportion of variable renewable energy which owns fluctuation characteristics and the promotion of the Clean Heating policy, the seasonal energy imbalance of the system has been more and more challenging. There is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Jing Li , Tianguang Lu , Xinning Yi , Shaorui Wang , Xueqian He

The rapid growth in demand for HPC systems has led to a rise in carbon footprint, which requires urgent intervention. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the carbon footprint of high-performance computing (HPC) systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Baolin Li , Rohan Basu Roy , Daniel Wang , Siddharth Samsi , Vijay Gadepally , Devesh Tiwari

Power consumption is the major cost factor in data centers. It can be reduced by dynamically right-sizing the data center according to the currently arriving jobs. If there is a long period with low load, servers can be powered down to save…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Susanne Albers , Jens Quedenfeld

Deep learning applications at the network edge lead to a significant growth in AI-related carbon emissions, presenting a critical sustainability challenge. The existing edge computing frameworks optimize for latency and throughput, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Chuanyi Sun , Hailong Jiang