Energy aware SLA and green cloud federations

Abstract

Cloud computing has been an emerging research topic since 2007. The online services are delivered as pay-as-you-use in Cloud computing. The customers need not be in a long term contract with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Service level agreements (SLAs) are agreements signed between a cloud service provider and customers. Energy aware SLAs extend the existing SLA agreements in order to include energy and carbon aware parameters. The efficiency and availability of the system are not disturbed when certain jobs are relaxed in order to obtain high energy consumption. In order to increase the energy consumption further we incorporated the concept of cloud federations in which a group of CSPs, mutually agree to make use of their resources to execute the VMs of other CSPs. An algorithm based on the amount of energy consumed by different CSPs is being readily implemented. This algorithm grant a group of CSPs to jointly set the federations in a manner to distribute their work equally so as to reduce the energy consumed. The results from the above approach show that it can be considered as a hopeful solution to the problem of reducing the energy cost even though there are a few challenges during implementation. � 2016 IEEE.