Title
Minimizing electricity cost in geographical virtual network embedding
Abstract
In light of rapid increase of electricity cost, many business organizations have to find new ways to cut the electricity bill. This paper studies how to reduce the electricity cost in geographical inter-domain virtual network embedding, which embeds virtual networks requested by users to multiple geographically distributed substrate networks run by an infrastructure provider. Previous researches have primarily focused on finding embedding methods to increase revenues by accommodating more virtual network requests, with little attention to reducing the electricity cost. To bridge this gap, we formulate an electricity cost model and design an efficient cost-aware virtual network embedding algorithm by exploiting the location-varying and time-varying diversities of the electricity price and optimizing the energy consumption. Through extensive simulations, we show that our algorithm can significantly reduce the electricity cost by up to 21% over the existing cost-oblivious algorithm, while maintaining nearly the same revenues for the infrastructure provider.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503510
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
business organizations,location-varying diversities,geographical inter-domain virtual network embedding,time-varying diversities,electricity price,electricity cost,organisational aspects,electricity bill,computer networks,energy consumption,pricing,telecommunication power supplies,cost-aware virtual network embedding
Electricity market,Revenue,Virtual network,Embedding,Electricity cost,Electricity,Computer science,Computer network,Virtual network embedding,Energy consumption
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1930-529X E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0919-6
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-0919-6
8
0.44
References 
Authors
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhongbao Zhang140427.60
Sen Su266665.68
Xinli Niu380.44
Jiao Ma4423.78
Xiang Cheng541028.18
Kai Shuang633028.68