Energy efficiency aware load distribution and electricity cost volatility control for cloud service providers

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 185-197

  Paul, Debdeep ^a   Zhong, Wen De ^a   Bose, Sanjay K ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Electricity markets; Energy efficiency; Internet data centers; Model predictive control; Online algorithms

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT LOADS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; POWER MARKETS; SWITCHING;

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY PRICES; INTERNET DATA CENTERS; LOAD DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATIONS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84949625089     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.08.012     Document Type: Article

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