Sustainability Technologies and Applications for Green Cloud Computing

Dear Colleagues,

Computer resources in cloud computing are usually not only shared by multiple users but are also dynamically reallocated according to demand to develop the future Internet. Sustainability is based on the principle of sustainable use of the computing environment and its resources, and represents an exciting and crucial issue as it determines the future of the Internet. It needs an advanced sustainability theory and technology backbone to flourish and provides interoperability among these. For energy consumption strategy and sustainability, technologies with green cloud computing environments are the most fundamental requirements to support resource managing and discovery as well as storage. Green cloud computing consists of interconnected “computing resources” and their virtual representations, which are addressable by using standard communication protocols. The advanced sustainability technologies have worked on combining knowledge engineering and mathematic theory to sustainably operate, manage, integrate and reason upon applications with cloud computing. This research field needs efficient methods and solutions that can structurally make sense of sustainability on cloud computing service architecture.

This special issue solicits innovative ideas and solutions in all aspects around the Sustainability Technologies and Applications for green cloud computing. The general scope of this issue covers the design, modeling, prototyping, programming and implementation of high performance systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-       Sustainability of Green Cloud Computing

-       Advanced and Applied Mathematics for Green Cloud Computing

-       Computational Methods in Green Cloud Computing

-       Sustainable Resource Management Scheme

-       Mathematical Models to Manage Cloud Computing with Virtualization Technologies

-       Strategic Management for Sustainability in Green Cloud Computing

-       Energy Efficiency of Green Cloud Computing

-       Advanced Modeling and Theory for Green Cloud Computing for Sustainability

-       Performance Characterization, Evaluation, Optimization and Design Trade-Offs

-       Security and Privacy Issues in for Green Cloud Computing

Young-Sik Jeong
Jian-nong Cao
Neil Y. Yen
Guest Editors

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