Cooling-Aware Energy and Workload Management in Data Centers via Stochastic Optimization

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 402-415

  Chen, Tianyi ^a   Wang, Xin ^b,c   Giannakis, Georgios B ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling aware; cost minimization; data center; distributed storage; renewable generation; stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORAGE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COST MINIMIZATION; DATA CENTERS; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; RENEWABLE GENERATION; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84962786610     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2015.2500189     Document Type: Article

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