In today's competitive world, performance measurement of the supply chain is the key for
effective supply chain management. The performance measurement can be utilized to …

Current cloud data centers are fully virtualized for service consolidation and power/energy
reduction. Although virtualization could reduce the real-time power consumption and overall …

With the increasing cost of electricity, Cloud providers consider energy consumption as one
of the major cost factors to be maintained within their infrastructure. Consequently, various …

Current trends in telecommunication networks foresee the adoption of the fifth generation
(5G) of wireless networks in the near future. However, a large number of people are living …

Demand Response (DR) is becoming a cornerstone element in the current energy sector,
particularly for the EU energy markets. For this reason, considerable effort has been spent …

Power oversubscription in data centers may occasionally trigger an emergency when the
aggregate power demand exceeds the capacity. Handling such an emergency requires a …

Maliciously-injected power load, aka power attack, has recently surfaced as a new
egregious attack vector for dangerously compromising the data center availability. This …

In this article, we explore the efficacy of dynamic effective capacity modulation (ie, using
virtualization techniques to offer lower resource capacity than that advertised by the cloud …

For a cloud service provider, it necessitates an emerging cloud ecosystem to consolidate the
existing users and attract more potential users, further gaining its market share. Therefore, in …

Energy storage in data centers has mainly been used as devices to backup generators
during power outages. Recently there has been a growing interest in using energy storage …