Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Enhancing the efficiency and the reliability of the data center are the technical challenges for
maintaining the quality of services for the end-users in the data center operation. The energy …

In this article the authors evaluate the impact of different sectors of information and
communication technologies (ICT) on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. ICT is …

This study provides an overview of power consumption models of servers in data centers.
The server is the basic unit of both power and heat flow paths; therefore, its power …

While cloud computing has brought paradigm shifts to computing services, researchers and
developers have also found some problems inherent to its nature such as bandwidth …

The cloud-computing paradigm offers on-demand services over the Internet and supports a
wide variety of applications. With the recent growth of Internet of Things (IoT)--based …

To better cope with the Internet usage shift from host-centric end-to-end communication to
receiver-driven content retrieval, innovative information-centric networking (ICN) …

Virtual machine consolidation aims at reducing the number of active physical servers in a
data center so as to decrease the total power consumption. In this context, most of the …

Cloud computing is the most prominent computing paradigm in the present era of
information technology. However, data centers needed for hosting cloud services demand …

Cloud resource provisioning is a challenging job that may be compromised due to
unavailability of the expected resources. Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of workloads …