Price-Sensitivity Aware Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Internet Data Centers in Smart Grid Environment.

In this paper, we investigate the problem of developing a geographical load balancing (GLB) scheme for distributed Internet data centers (IDCs) when they are price-makers in the deregulated electricity markets, i.e., GLB may impose impact on electricity prices in IDC locations due to the large power consumption of IDCs. Taking into account the dynamic characteristics (e.g., time-varying power dema...