How to effectively reduce the energy consumption of large-scale data centers is a key issue in cloud computing. This paper presents a novel low-power task scheduling algorithm （L3SA） for large-scale cloud data cente...How to effectively reduce the energy consumption of large-scale data centers is a key issue in cloud computing. This paper presents a novel low-power task scheduling algorithm （L3SA） for large-scale cloud data centers. The winner tree is introduced to make the data nodes as the leaf nodes of the tree and the final winner on the purpose of reducing energy consumption is selected. The complexity of large-scale cloud data centers is fully consider, and the task comparson coefficient is defined to make task scheduling strategy more reasonable. Experiments and performance analysis show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the node utilization, and reduce the overall power consumption of the cloud data center.展开更多
Large latency of applications will bring revenue loss to cloud infrastructure providers in the cloud data center. The existing controllers of software-defined networking architecture can fetch and process traffic info...Large latency of applications will bring revenue loss to cloud infrastructure providers in the cloud data center. The existing controllers of software-defined networking architecture can fetch and process traffic information in the network. Therefore, the controllers can only optimize the network latency of applications. However, the serving latency of applications is also an important factor in delivered user-experience for arrival requests. Unintelligent request routing will cause large serving latency if arrival requests are allocated to overloaded virtual machines. To deal with the request routing problem, this paper proposes the workload-aware software-defined networking controller architecture. Then, request routing algorithms are proposed to minimize the total round trip time for every type of request by considering the congestion in the network and the workload in virtual machines（VMs）. This paper finally provides the evaluation of the proposed algorithms in a simulated prototype. The simulation results show that the proposed methodology is efficient compared with the existing approaches.展开更多
The increase in computing capacity caused a rapid and sudden increase in the Operational Expenses (OPEX) of data centers. OPEX reduction is a big concern and a key target in modern data centers. In this study, the sca...The increase in computing capacity caused a rapid and sudden increase in the Operational Expenses (OPEX) of data centers. OPEX reduction is a big concern and a key target in modern data centers. In this study, the scalability of the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) power management technique is studied under multiple different workloads. The environment of this study is a 3-Tier data center. We conducted multiple experiments to find the impact of using DVFS on energy reduction under two scheduling techniques, namely: Round Robin and Green. We observed that the amount of energy reduction varies according to data center load. When the data center load increases, the energy reduction decreases. Experiments using Green scheduler showed around 83% decrease in power consumption when DVFS is enabled and DC is lightly loaded. In case the DC is fully loaded, in which case the servers’ CPUs are constantly busy with no idle time, the effect of DVFS decreases and stabilizes to less than 10%. Experiments using Round Robin scheduler showed less energy saving by DVFS, specifically, around 25% in light DC load and less than 5% in heavy DC load. In order to find the effect of task weight on energy consumption, a set of experiments were conducted through applying thin and fat tasks. A thin task has much less instructions compared to fat tasks. We observed, through the simulation, that the difference in power reduction between both types of tasks when using DVFS is less than 1%.展开更多
Energy generation and consumption are the main aspects of social life due to the fact that modern people’s necessity for energy is a crucial ingredient for existence. Therefore, energy efficiency is regarded as the b...Energy generation and consumption are the main aspects of social life due to the fact that modern people’s necessity for energy is a crucial ingredient for existence. Therefore, energy efficiency is regarded as the best economical approach to provide safer and affordable energy for both utilities and consumers, through the enhancement of energy security and reduction of energy emissions. One of the problems of cloud computing service providers is the high rise in the cost of energy, efficiency together with carbon emission with regards to the running of their internet data centres (IDCs). In order to mitigate these issues, smart micro-grid was found to be suitable in increasing the energy efficiency, sustainability together with the reliability of electrical services for the IDCs. Therefore, this paper presents idea on how smart micro-grids can bring down the disturbing cost of energy, carbon emission by the IDCs with some level of energy efficiency all in an effort to attain green cloud computing services from the service providers. In specific term, we aim at achieving green information and communication technology (ICT) in the field of cloud computing in relations to energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness and carbon emission reduction from cloud data center’s perspective.展开更多
This paper investigates autonomic cloud data center networks, which is the solution with the increasingly complex computing environment, in terms of the management and cost issues to meet users’ growing demand. The v...This paper investigates autonomic cloud data center networks, which is the solution with the increasingly complex computing environment, in terms of the management and cost issues to meet users’ growing demand. The virtualized cloud networking is to provide a plethora of rich online applications, including self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection. In addition, we draw on the intelligent subject and multi-agent system, concerning system model, strategy, autonomic cloud computing, involving independent computing system development and implementation. Then, combining the architecture with the autonomous unit, we propose the MCDN (Model of Autonomic Cloud Data Center Networks). This model can define intelligent state, elaborate the composition structure, and complete life cycle. Finally, our proposed public infrastructure can be provided with the autonomous unit in the supported interaction model.展开更多
In Cloud computing, data and service requests are responded by remote processes calls on huge data server clusters that are not totally trusted. The new computing pattern may cause many potential security threats. Thi...In Cloud computing, data and service requests are responded by remote processes calls on huge data server clusters that are not totally trusted. The new computing pattern may cause many potential security threats. This paper explores how to ensure the integrity and correctness of data storage in cloud computing with user＇s key pair. In this paper, we aim mainly at constructing of a quick data chunk verifying scheme to maintain data in data center by implementing a balance strategy of cloud computing costs, removing the heavy computing load of clients, and applying an automatic data integrity maintenance method. In our scheme, third party auditor （TPA） is kept in the scheme, for the sake of the client, to periodically check the integrity of data blocks stored in data center. Our scheme supports quick public data integrity verification and chunk redundancy strategy. Compared with the existing scheme, it takes the advantage of ocean data support and high performance.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6120200461272084)+9 种基金the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(2011CB302903)the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(2009322312000120113223110003)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(2011M5000952012T50514)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK2011754BK2009426)the Jiangsu Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(1102103C)the Natural Science Fund of Higher Education of Jiangsu Province(12KJB520007)the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(yx002001)
文摘How to effectively reduce the energy consumption of large-scale data centers is a key issue in cloud computing. This paper presents a novel low-power task scheduling algorithm （L3SA） for large-scale cloud data centers. The winner tree is introduced to make the data nodes as the leaf nodes of the tree and the final winner on the purpose of reducing energy consumption is selected. The complexity of large-scale cloud data centers is fully consider, and the task comparson coefficient is defined to make task scheduling strategy more reasonable. Experiments and performance analysis show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the node utilization, and reduce the overall power consumption of the cloud data center.
基金supported by the National Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(2014M550068)
文摘Large latency of applications will bring revenue loss to cloud infrastructure providers in the cloud data center. The existing controllers of software-defined networking architecture can fetch and process traffic information in the network. Therefore, the controllers can only optimize the network latency of applications. However, the serving latency of applications is also an important factor in delivered user-experience for arrival requests. Unintelligent request routing will cause large serving latency if arrival requests are allocated to overloaded virtual machines. To deal with the request routing problem, this paper proposes the workload-aware software-defined networking controller architecture. Then, request routing algorithms are proposed to minimize the total round trip time for every type of request by considering the congestion in the network and the workload in virtual machines（VMs）. This paper finally provides the evaluation of the proposed algorithms in a simulated prototype. The simulation results show that the proposed methodology is efficient compared with the existing approaches.
文摘The increase in computing capacity caused a rapid and sudden increase in the Operational Expenses (OPEX) of data centers. OPEX reduction is a big concern and a key target in modern data centers. In this study, the scalability of the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) power management technique is studied under multiple different workloads. The environment of this study is a 3-Tier data center. We conducted multiple experiments to find the impact of using DVFS on energy reduction under two scheduling techniques, namely: Round Robin and Green. We observed that the amount of energy reduction varies according to data center load. When the data center load increases, the energy reduction decreases. Experiments using Green scheduler showed around 83% decrease in power consumption when DVFS is enabled and DC is lightly loaded. In case the DC is fully loaded, in which case the servers’ CPUs are constantly busy with no idle time, the effect of DVFS decreases and stabilizes to less than 10%. Experiments using Round Robin scheduler showed less energy saving by DVFS, specifically, around 25% in light DC load and less than 5% in heavy DC load. In order to find the effect of task weight on energy consumption, a set of experiments were conducted through applying thin and fat tasks. A thin task has much less instructions compared to fat tasks. We observed, through the simulation, that the difference in power reduction between both types of tasks when using DVFS is less than 1%.
文摘Energy generation and consumption are the main aspects of social life due to the fact that modern people’s necessity for energy is a crucial ingredient for existence. Therefore, energy efficiency is regarded as the best economical approach to provide safer and affordable energy for both utilities and consumers, through the enhancement of energy security and reduction of energy emissions. One of the problems of cloud computing service providers is the high rise in the cost of energy, efficiency together with carbon emission with regards to the running of their internet data centres (IDCs). In order to mitigate these issues, smart micro-grid was found to be suitable in increasing the energy efficiency, sustainability together with the reliability of electrical services for the IDCs. Therefore, this paper presents idea on how smart micro-grids can bring down the disturbing cost of energy, carbon emission by the IDCs with some level of energy efficiency all in an effort to attain green cloud computing services from the service providers. In specific term, we aim at achieving green information and communication technology (ICT) in the field of cloud computing in relations to energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness and carbon emission reduction from cloud data center’s perspective.
文摘This paper investigates autonomic cloud data center networks, which is the solution with the increasingly complex computing environment, in terms of the management and cost issues to meet users’ growing demand. The virtualized cloud networking is to provide a plethora of rich online applications, including self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection. In addition, we draw on the intelligent subject and multi-agent system, concerning system model, strategy, autonomic cloud computing, involving independent computing system development and implementation. Then, combining the architecture with the autonomous unit, we propose the MCDN (Model of Autonomic Cloud Data Center Networks). This model can define intelligent state, elaborate the composition structure, and complete life cycle. Finally, our proposed public infrastructure can be provided with the autonomous unit in the supported interaction model.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60633020, 60573036)the Fundamental Funding Research Project of the Engineering College of APF (WJY 201026)
文摘In Cloud computing, data and service requests are responded by remote processes calls on huge data server clusters that are not totally trusted. The new computing pattern may cause many potential security threats. This paper explores how to ensure the integrity and correctness of data storage in cloud computing with user＇s key pair. In this paper, we aim mainly at constructing of a quick data chunk verifying scheme to maintain data in data center by implementing a balance strategy of cloud computing costs, removing the heavy computing load of clients, and applying an automatic data integrity maintenance method. In our scheme, third party auditor （TPA） is kept in the scheme, for the sake of the client, to periodically check the integrity of data blocks stored in data center. Our scheme supports quick public data integrity verification and chunk redundancy strategy. Compared with the existing scheme, it takes the advantage of ocean data support and high performance.
