Optimizing Cloud providers revenues via energy efficient server allocation

Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Mazzucco, Michele ^a,b   Dyachuk, Dmytro ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Software Technology and Applications Competence Centre STACC   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d DemonWare   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Green computing; Optimization; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; ALLOCATION POLICIES; CLOUD PROVIDERS; DATA CENTERS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; GREEN COMPUTING; NET REVENUE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SERVER FARMS; STORAGE CAPACITY; TIME VARYING; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; USER DEMANDS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84858071460     PISSN: 22105379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suscom.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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