A CO2 Emissions Accounting Framework with Market-based Incentives for Cloud Infrastructures

David Margery, David Guyon, Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Christine Morin, Gareth Francis, Charaka Palansuriya, Kostas Kavoussanakis

2017

Abstract

CO2 emissions related to Cloud computing reach nowadays worrying levels, without any reduction in sight. Often, Cloud users, asking for virtual machines, are not aware of such emissions which concern the entire Cloud infrastructures and are thus difficult to split into the actual resources utilization, such as virtual machines. We propose a CO2 emissions accounting framework giving flexibility to the Cloud providers, predictability to the users and allocating all the carbon costs to the users. This paper shows the architecture of our accounting framework and ideas on how to practically implement it.

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in Harvard Style

Margery D., Guyon D., Orgerie A., Morin C., Francis G., Palansuriya C. and Kavoussanakis K. (2017). A CO2 Emissions Accounting Framework with Market-based Incentives for Cloud Infrastructures . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 299-304. DOI: 10.5220/0006356502990304


in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={David Margery and David Guyon and Anne-Cecile Orgerie and Christine Morin and Gareth Francis and Charaka Palansuriya and Kostas Kavoussanakis},
title={A CO2 Emissions Accounting Framework with Market-based Incentives for Cloud Infrastructures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={299-304},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006356502990304},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - A CO2 Emissions Accounting Framework with Market-based Incentives for Cloud Infrastructures
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Margery D.
AU - Guyon D.
AU - Orgerie A.
AU - Morin C.
AU - Francis G.
AU - Palansuriya C.
AU - Kavoussanakis K.
PY - 2017
SP - 299
EP - 304
DO - 10.5220/0006356502990304