Energy-aware load balancing in distributed data centers

• Grant number: 14/01154-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2014
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
• Grantee: Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Computação (IC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Within the cloud computing paradigm, providers offer services and computational infrastructure to their users on demand in a pay-per-use model. Data centers form the computational clouds and are able to work in a coordinated way, in many different geographically regions, and are also able to support thousands of servers.All the data center infrastructure accounts for a high energy consumption, leading to economic and environmental problems. The future trend is to increase this consumption, causing even greater impact. However, much of this energy is ineffectively used, making it possible to develop better strategies for improving the use of the equipments and, as a consequence, reducing the energy consumption in data centers.The goal of this work is to propose an approach to energy-aware load balancing in geographically distributed data centers. An strategy to reduce the energy consumption in each data center will also be proposed, based on a virtual machine placement, that will take the data center topology into account. Having proposed that, an strategy for load balancing amongst data centers will be proposed.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA SILVA, RODRIGO A. C.; DA FONSECA, NELSON L. S.. Topology-Aware Virtual Machine Placement in Data Centers. Journal of Grid Computing, v. 14, n. 1, p. 75-90, MAR 2016. (14/01154-4)

DA SILVA, RODRIGO A. C.; DA FONSECA, NELSON L. S.; IEEE. Energy-aware migration of groups of virtual machines in distributed data centers. 2016 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM), v. N/A, p. 6-pg., 2016-01-01. (14/01154-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da. Balanceamento de carga ciente de energia em data centers distribuídos. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação Campinas, SP.