A Catalogue of Green Architectural Tactics for the Cloud

Author

Procaccianti, Giuseppe ; Lago, Patricia ; Lewis, Grace A.

Author_Institution

VU Univ. Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

29-29 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

36

Abstract

Energy efficiency is a primary concern for the ICTsector. In particular, the widespread adoption of cloud computing technologies has drawn attention to the massive energy consumption of data centers. Although hardware constantly improves with respect to energy efficiency, this should also be a main concern for software. In previous work we analyzed the literature and elicited a set of techniques for addressing energy efficiency in cloud-based software architectures. In this work we codified these techniques in the form of Green Architectural Tactics. These tactics will help architects extend their design reasoning towards energy efficiency and to apply reusable solutions for greener software.

Keywords

cloud computing; energy conservation; green computing; power aware computing; software architecture; cloud computing technologies; cloud-based software architectures; energy efficiency; green architectural tactics catalogue; Cloud computing; Energy consumption; Green products; Hardware; Monitoring; Servers; Architectural Tactics; Cloud Computing; Energy Efficiency; Software Architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA), 2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on the

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MESOCA.2014.12

Filename

6976608