Alexandru-Adrian Tantar
ABSTRACT
The herein paper addresses the issue of providing a model and guidelines for constructing a sustainable ICT environment at the University of Luxembourg. A particular context is thus considered, based on a real-life project that has as aim to provide a sustainable environment for the ICT infrastructure of the university. According to the different environment constraints and requirements, the objectives are to minimize electricity consumption by employing virtualization techniques and also to reduce carbon emissions by creating a load balanced charge of the computers that build the infrastructure. The quality of service is also addressed by provisioning factors. A multi-objective dynamic approach is considered in order to cope with the simultaneous optimization of the mentioned objectives and the dynamic nature of the system.
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Index Terms
- Load balancing for sustainable ICT
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