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Environment Friendly Energy Efficient Distributed Data Centers

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Information Sciences and Systems 2015

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 363))

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Geographically distributed data centers form a significant technology used by the Internet users to fulfil the demand of storage, processing and large scale computations. Most of the operational cost of such data centers is due to the electricity cost, which affect both service providers and consumers. In this paper, we addressed the problem of energy consumption of data center entities and reviewed state-of-the-art solutions proposed to reduce the electricity cost. We present the full view of the problem by providing the widely used energy consumption and/or operational cost models. We identified key characteristics of efficient techniques proposed for reduction of the electricity cost, carbon emission and financial penalties in case of SLA violations. These techniques include environment friendly cost minimization, energy efficient load migration, job scheduling and resource allocation. We also identified open challenges as guidelines for future research.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) framework, under Action IC0804, by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) under Grant 109M761, and by HEC (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan).

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ahsan Ali & Oznur Ozkasap

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  1. Department of Electrical, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    Omer H. Abdelrahman

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    Erol Gelenbe

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

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  4. Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Ricardo Lent

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Ali, A., Ozkasap, O. (2016). Environment Friendly Energy Efficient Distributed Data Centers. In: Abdelrahman, O., Gelenbe, E., Gorbil, G., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22635-4_6

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