An Energy-aware Brokering Algorithm to Improve Sustainability in Community Cloud

Maurizio Giacobbe, Marco Scarpa, Riccardo Di Pietro, Antonio Puliafito

2017

Abstract

Cloud computing is a paradigm for large scale distributed infrastructures, platforms or software services which represents a hot topic in Information Technology (IT) recently in both industrial and academic areas. Its use is motivated by the possibility to promote a new economy of scale in different contexts. Along with the well-known public, private and hybrid Cloud models, the Community Cloud is an emerging concept based on a deployment model in which a Cloud infrastructure allows a specific community of consumers to share interests, goals and responsibilities. It can be owned and managed by the community, by a third party, or a combination of them. In such scenario, new low-carbon strategies at Cloud sites are necessary to allow those latter to reduce the consumption in presence of a massive exploitation of IT services. Therefore, balancing performances with both sustainability and cost saving concepts is a challenge. In this paper, we present a low carbon strategy designed to make the best choice in resources allocation, based on sustainability, availability and costs. The proposed energy-aware Brokering Algorithm (eBA) allows to push down carbon dioxide emissions through the Community Cloud ecosystem, by running instances at the most convenient sites.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Giacobbe M., Scarpa M., Di Pietro R. and Puliafito A. (2017). An Energy-aware Brokering Algorithm to Improve Sustainability in Community Cloud . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 166-173. DOI: 10.5220/0006300201660173

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Riccardo Di Pietro and Antonio Puliafito},
title={An Energy-aware Brokering Algorithm to Improve Sustainability in Community Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={166-173},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006300201660173},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - An Energy-aware Brokering Algorithm to Improve Sustainability in Community Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Giacobbe M.
AU - Scarpa M.
AU - Di Pietro R.
AU - Puliafito A.
PY - 2017
SP - 166
EP - 173
DO - 10.5220/0006300201660173