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Energy Packet Networks: ICT Based Energy Allocation and Storage

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In the presence of limitations in the availability of energy for data centres, especially in dense urban areas, a novel system that we call an Energy Packet Network is discussed as a means to provide energy on demand to Cloud Computing servers. This approach can be useful in the presence of renewable energy sources, and if scarce sources of energy must be shared by multiple computational units whose peak to average power consumption ratio is high. Such a system will use energy storage units to best match and smooth the intermittent supply and the intermittent demand. The analysis of such systems based on queueing networks is suggested and applied to a special case for illustration.

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  1. Intelligent Systems & Networks, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BT, UK

    Erol Gelenbe

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira interior, Rua Marques D’Avila e Bolama, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal

    Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

  2. Nanjing University of Posts, and Telecommunications, Xinmofan Road 66, P.O.Box 214, 210003, Nanjing, China

    Liang Zhou

  3. Seoul National University, Korea, 202, Hanul-villa, 520-9, Uijeongbu 2dong, 480-849, Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

    Min Chen

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Bvd., Woodward Hall 230E, 28223, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Aravind Kailas

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Gelenbe, E. (2012). Energy Packet Networks: ICT Based Energy Allocation and Storage. In: Rodrigues, J.J.P.C., Zhou, L., Chen, M., Kailas, A. (eds) Green Communications and Networking. GreeNets 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33368-2_16

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