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Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol

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Cloud computing is revolutionizing the ICT landscape by providing scalable and efficient computing resources on demand. The ICT industry – especially data centers, are responsible for considerable amounts of CO 2 emissions and will very soon be faced with legislative restrictions, such as the Kyoto protocol, defining caps at different organizational levels (country, industry branch etc.) A lot has been done around energy efficient data centers, yet there is very little work done in defining flexible models considering CO 2. In this paper we present a first attempt of modeling data centers in compliance with the Kyoto protocol. We discuss a novel approach for trading credits for emission reductions across data centers to comply with their constraints. CO 2 caps can be integrated with Service Level Agreements and juxtaposed to other computing commodities (e.g. computational power, storage), setting a foundation for implementing next-generation schedulers and pricing models that support Kyoto-compliant CO 2 trading schemes.

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  • Cloud Computing
  • Schedule Algorithm
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Service Level Agreement
  • Trading Credit

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Lucanin, D., Maurer, M., Mastelic, T., Brandic, I. (2012). Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. In: Huusko, J., de Meer, H., Klingert, S., Somov, A. (eds) Energy Efficient Data Centers. E2DC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_9

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