Energy efficiency techniques in cloud computing: A survey and taxonomy

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kaur, Tarandeep ^a   Chana, Inderveer ^a  

^a THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Consolidation; Data center; Documentation; Energy efficiency; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Multicores; Resource Management System (RMS); Resource scheduling; Theory; Virtual Machines (VMs); Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSOLIDATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; TAXONOMIES;

DATA CENTERS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-CORES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; THEORY; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84945913595     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2742488     Document Type: Article

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