Paper Info
Title
Propagating Electricity Bill onto Cloud Tenants: Using a Novel Pricing Mechanism.
Abstract
Data centers spend millions of dollars on their electricity bills annually. Therefore, there is an interest among data center operators to control the electricity usage so as to minimize energy expenditure. However, when it comes to cloud data centers, the electricity usage is mainly controlled by the tenants. Yet, since most cloud data centers charge their tenants with flat rates, the tenants do not have incentives to change their electricity usage to contribute in cutting electricity bills by participation in demand response. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a game-theoretic framework together with a time varying pricing (TVP) mechanism for cloud data centers to charge their tenants. In this approach, the TVP propagates the actual energy bill, which comprises both demand and energy charges, onto tenants' service costs. As an extension to this core idea, the time-varying amount of renewable energy generated by data center's on-site renewable generators is also taken into account to affect the payments. Our proposed pricing method is evaluated under various experimental data and simulations. We show that TVP can boost data center's profit by 8.2% and reduce the energy bill by 33.0% and improve tenants' aggregate surplus by 12.3%, when comparing it with a flat rates model that uses a widely employed billing method in today's cloud data centers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417600
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Field
DocType
ISSN
Load management,Renewable energy,Incentive,Computer science,Electricity,Demand response,Computer network,Data center,Payment,Environmental economics,Cloud computing
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Zhan1143.33
Mahdi Ghamkhari21308.31
Xu Du33715.92
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad41681159.83