Performance and energy efficiency metrics for communication systems of cloud computing data centers

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 738-750

  Fiandrino, Claudio ^a   Kliazovich, Dzmitry ^a   Bouvry, Pascal ^a   Zomaya, Albert Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Data center; Performance and energy efficiency metrics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMMON DATUM; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY METRICS; IT EQUIPMENT; ON DEMANDS; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; SERVICE PROVISIONING;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 85038584166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2424892     Document Type: Article

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