Green cloud architecture: Low power routers for an energy-aware data transport

Author

Kasse, Fatoumata B. ; Gueye, Bamba ; Elbiaze, Halima

Author_Institution

Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

fYear

2014

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

35

Abstract

So far, mitigating the energy consumed by data centers has received much attention in order to increase the energy-efficiency in clouds. Nevertheless, the energy consumed by data transport represents a significant percentage according to the overall consumption of the cloud. Hence, by exploiting network and router consolidation we design and evaluate a Green Cloud Architecture (GCA), where we can either shut down, or make in sleeping mode virtual routers; or migrate virtual routers towards another physical router according to energy-awareness. Our green architecture significantly reduces the number of powered ON routers, and thus the power consumption during data transport by up to 41%.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer centres; green computing; power aware computing; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication power management; virtualisation; GCA; cloud energy-efficiency; data centers; energy consumption; energy-aware data transport; green cloud architecture; low power routers; physical router; power consumption; powered ON routers; sleeping mode virtual routers; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Green products; Servers; Stress; Substrates; Virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2014

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2014.7063381

Filename

7063381