Efficient resource provision which can guarantee the satisfactory cloud computing services
to the end user, lays the foundation for the success of commercial competition. In the Iaas …

Abstract Background: Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation is an effective technique to
improve resource utilization and reduce energy footprint in cloud data centers. It can be …

The increase in massive data processing and computing in datacenters in recent years has
resulted in the problem of severe energy consumption, which also leads to a significant …

Virtual Data Center (VDC) embedding has drawn significant attention recently because of
the growing need for efficient and flexible means of Data Center (DC) resource allocation …

With the rapid growth of cloud services, huge energy consumption of the underlying large-
scale datacenters becomes a major concern of both the resource providers and the society …

Cooling system consumes more than 35% of total electricity in most data centers. The
provided cooling normally exceeds the actual demand of IT equipment in order to assure the …

One of the key challenges in reducing the energy consumption of data centers is to improve
the efficiency of air conditioning units. The efficiency is increased when the temperature of …

Demand proportional resource provisioning schemes have been proposed to achieve
datacenter energy efficiency, where servers are turned on/off according to the load of …

Since cloud data centers operating from thousands to tens of thousands of servers consume
enormous amount of power, there is a strong interest in energy efficiency. With virtualization …

Server-level power monitoring in data centers can significantly contribute to its efficient
management. Nevertheless, due to the cost of a dedicated power meter for each server …