Green Cloud Provisioning Throughout Cooperation of a WDM Wide Area Network and a Hybrid Power IT Infrastructure: A Study on Cooperation Models

Abstract

The paper focuses on cooperation between cloud and network operators, as well as on fitting particular routing strategies to various cloud services. Three cooperation models are presented, analyzed and compared in the paper: the proposed model and two widely used reference models. The main difference between the models is the set of information being exchanged between the involved parties. Additionally, we analyze the applicability of four fitting schemas for each considered model. It is shown that the proposed model, alongside with an appropriate fitting schema, is able to reduce the blocking probability of cloud services requests. At the same time, thanks to the use of green anycast strategies, it is able to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emission.