Title
On satisfying green SLAs in distributed clouds
Abstract
With the massive adoption of cloud-based services, high energy consumption and carbon footprint of cloud infrastructures have become a major concern in IT industry. Consequently, many governments and IT advisory organizations have urged IT stakeholders (i.e., cloud provider and cloud customers) to embrace green IT and regularly monitor and report their carbon emissions and put in place efficient strategies and techniques to control the environmental impact of their infrastructures and/or applications. Motivated by this growing trend, we investigate, in this paper, how cloud providers can meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with green requirements. In such SLAs, a cloud customer requires from cloud providers that carbon emissions generated by the leased resources should not exceed a fixed bound. We hence propose a resource management framework allowing cloud providers to provision resources in the form of Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) (i.e., a set of virtual machines and virtual links with guaranteed bandwidth) across a geo-distributed infrastructure with the aim of reducing operational costs and green SLA violation penalties. Extensive simulations show that the proposed solution maximizes the cloud provider's profit and minimizes the violation of green SLAs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CNSM.2014.7014142
CNSM
Keywords
Field
DocType
contracts,carbon footprint,it industry,virtual data centers,computer centres,resource management framework,green requirements,information technology,green sla,cloud infrastructure,cloud providers,cloud-based services,distributed cloud,energy consumption,vdc,green it,cloud computing,cloud customer,green computing,service level agreements
Resource management,Green computing,Service level,Virtual machine,Information technology,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Carbon footprint,Cloud computing security,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2165-9605
6
0.46
References 
Authors
15
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Amokrane1945.73
Mohamed Faten Zhani278745.15
Qi Zhang328212.60
Rami Langar446738.17
Raouf Boutaba56453404.30
Guy Pujolle62015267.64