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PRIMAL: PRofIt Maximization Avatar pLacement for Mobile Edge Computing
Xiang Sun, Nirwan Ansari
We propose a cloudlet network architecture to bring the computing resources from the centralized cloud to the edge. Thus, each User Equipment (UE) can communicate with its Avatar,…
GATE: Greening At The Edge
Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han, Mina Taheri
Dramatic data traffic growth, especially wireless data, is driving a significant surge in energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The g…
Renewable Energy-Aware Inter-datacenter Virtual Machine Migration over Elastic Optical Networks
Liang Zhang, Tao Han, Nirwan Ansari
Datacenters (DCs) are deployed in a large scale to support the ever increasing demand for data processing to support various applications. The energy consumption of DCs becomes a c…
Design and Analysis of Green Optical Line Terminal for TDM Passive Optical Networks
Mina Taheri, Nirwan Ansari
This paper proposes a novel scheme which can efficiently reduce the energy consumption of Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) in Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Passive Optical Networks…
FreeNet: Spectrum and Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han
The dramatic mobile data traffic growth is not only resulting in the spectrum crunch but is also leading to exorbitant energy consumption. It is thus desirable to liberate mobile a…
Profit Maximization for Geographical Dispersed Green Data Centers
Abbas Kiani, Nirwan Ansari
This paper aims at maximizing the profit associated with running geographically dispersed green data centers, which offer multiple classes of service. To this end, we formulate an…