Stratus: Load Balancing the Cloud for Carbon Emissions Control.
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Doyle, J., Shorten, R., & O'Mahony, D, Stratus: Load Balancing the Cloud for Carbon Emissions Control., IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 1, 1, 2013Abstract:
Large public cloud infrastructure can utilise power which is generated by a multiplicity of power plants. The cost of electricity will vary among the power plants and each will emit different amounts of carbon for a given amount of energy generated. This infrastructure services traffic that can come from anywhere on the planet. It is desirable, for latency purposes, to route the traffic to the data centre that is closest in terms of geographical distance, costs the least to power and emits the smallest amount of carbon for a given request. It is not always possible to achieve all of these goals so we model both the networking and computational components of the infrastructure as a graph Large public cloud infrastructure can utilise power which is generated by a multiplicity of power plants. The cost of electricity will vary among the power plants and each will emit different amounts of carbon for a given amount of energy generated. This infrastructure services traffic that can come from anywhere on the planet. It is desirable, for latency purposes, to route the traffic to the data centre that is closest in terms of geographical distance, costs the least to power and emits the smallest amount of carbon for a given request. It is not always possible to achieve all of these goals so we model both the networking and computational components of the infrastructure as a graph and propose the Stratus system which utilises Voronoi partitions to determine which data centre requests should be routed to based on the relative priorities of the cloud operator.
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Author: O'MAHONY, DONAL
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IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing1
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Electricity supply industry, Industrial plants, Load management, Network management, Network operating systems, Power distribution, Power generation, Power system economicsSubject (TCD):
Intelligent Content & Communications , Smart & Sustainable Planet , TelecommunicationsMetadata
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