2 papers
cs.DC2016
Incentivizing Users of Data Centers Participate in The Demand Response Programs via Time-Varying Monetary Rewards
Yong Zhan, Du Xu, Hongfang Yu +1
Demand response is widely employed by today's data centers to reduce energy consumption in response to the increasing of electricity cost. To incentivize users of data centers part…
cs.NI2016
Optimal Response to Burstable Billing under Demand Uncertainty
Yong Zhan, Mahdi Ghamkhari, Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi +2
Burstable billing is widely adopted in practice, e.g., by colocation data center providers, to charge for their users, e.g., data centers, for data transferring. However, there is…