A survey of power-saving techniques on data centers and content delivery networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1334-1354

  Ge, Chang ^a   Sun, Zhili ^a   Wang, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content delivery network; data center network; energy efficiency; power saving

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK; CONTENT SERVERS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DATA CENTERS; DISTRIBUTED DATA; ENERGY BILLS; POWER SAVINGS; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SURVEYS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84881318204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.102512.00019     Document Type: Article

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