Paper Info
Title
Renewable energy in distributed energy efficient content delivery clouds
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to study the impact of renewable energy availability, represented by wind farms, on the location of clouds and the content replication schemes of cloud content over IP/WDM networks. In our analysis, we assume that renewable energy is only available to power clouds while the IP/WDM network is powered by non-renewable energy. Our results show that popularity based replication in clouds is the most energy efficient content replication scheme when the clouds are powered only by non-renewable energy sources or when renewable energy availability is limited. With abundant renewable energy, a cloud with a full copy of the content can be built at each node. However, the model should achieve a trade-off between the transmission power losses to deliver renewable energy from wind farms to clouds and the non-renewable power consumption of the IP/WDM network. We discuss this trade-off and show how to optimize the transmission power losses of renewable energy while minimizing the non-renewable network power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICC.2015.7248310
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud computing,popularity,content delivery,IP/WDM,energy consumption,renewable energy
Wavelength-division multiplexing,Renewable energy,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Integer programming,Distributed generation,Energy source,Energy consumption,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
2
0.42
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Q. Lawey1197.99
Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi23712.43
J. M.H. Elmirghani3591110.47