Stratus: Load balancing the cloud for carbon emissions control

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-128

  Doyle, Joseph ^a   Shorten, Robert ^b   O'mahony, Donal ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Cloud computing; Load balancing; Voronoi partitions

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CARBON EMISSIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPONENTS; COST OF ELECTRICITY; DATA CENTERS; INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES; PUBLIC CLOUDS; RELATIVE PRIORITIES; VORONOI PARTITION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84917743346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2013.4     Document Type: Article

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