Joint bidding and geographical load balancing for datacenters: Is uncertainty a blessing or a curse?

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Deng, Lei ^a   Chen, Minghua ^a   Wang, Peijian ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST REDUCTION; COSTS;

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; DESIGN SPACES; ELECTRICITY PROCUREMENT; FAST CONVERGENCE; INFINITE DIMENSIONAL; PRICE VARIABILITY; STRATEGIC BIDDING; WHOLESALE MARKETS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85021453463     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2017.8057079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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