Minimizing the operational cost of data centers via geographical electricity price diversity

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-106

  Xu, Zichuan ^a   Liang, Weifa ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION RATIOS; CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; COMBINATORIAL PROPERTIES; DISTRIBUTED CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLAS); TIME-VARYING ELECTRICITY PRICES;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84897707284     PISSN: 21596182     EISSN: 21596190     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2013.94     Document Type: Conference Paper

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