A Look at Energy Efficient System Opportunities with Community Network Clouds (EES, ICT4S 2014)

A Look at Energy Efficient System Opportunities with Community Network Clouds
Felix Freitag, Leila Sharifi, Amin M Khan, Leandro Navarro, Roger Baig, Pau Escrich, and Luís Veiga
Workshop on Energy-Efficient System (EES), within 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (IST4S 2014), Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract:
Community networking is an emerging model of a shared communication infrastructure in which communities of citizens build and own open networks. Community networks offer successfully IP-based networking to the user. In addition, some hosts are connected to the network nodes in order to provide network management and end user services. Recently, clouds have been proposed for community networks. Some research projects such as Clommunity have started deploying computational infrastructure to enable cloud computing within community networks. In this paper we propose different options for such community clouds to contribute to energy efficient systems, in particular regarding cloud-based services and in relation to Smart Grid. Further discussion and interaction with the research initiatives on energy efficient systems should identify the most promising approach and outline possible ways for implementation.

Transcript

1. A Look at Energy Efficient System Opportunities with Community Network Clouds Felix Freitag, Leila Sharifi, Amin M Khan, Leandro Navarro, Roger Baig, Pau Escrich, and Luís Veiga Polytechnic University of Catalonia. BarcelonaTech Workshop on Energy-Efficient System (EES) 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (IST4S 2014) Stockholm, Sweden, 27 August 2014 Presenter: Amin Khan amin.khan@ieee.org aminmkhan.com
2. Community Networks What's this? A cooperative development of a network Where: Local, community (city, region, area) Who: You, and your neighbors, … “Don't buy the network, be the network!” Scalable, self-organized and decentralized IP networks and services built and operated by citizens for citizens But what services are in the network? What do you use it for?
3. Community Clouds The vision of cloud-based services in community networks We are talking about a specific community cloud: - built in community network - hosted on community-owned computing and communication resources - providing services of local interest Cooperative deployment and maintenance of clouds by citizens for citizens
6. Hardware in Community Cloud
7. For People, By People
8. DEPLOYMENT
9. Micro-Clouds
10. Testbed Infrastructure
11. Storage Service Experiments
12. Cloudy Linux Distro
13. SUPPORT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT SYSTEMS
14. Energy Efficient Resource Allocation Federation of heterogeneous Micro-clouds Selecting energy-efficient infrastructure Heterogeneity helps in optimizing energy usage
15. Using Low-Powered Devices Energy efficient infrastructures for cloud computing with low-powered devices Customize existing cloud platforms for energy- efficient hardware Community-Lab deployment with low-powered hardware
16. Smart Grid Support Smart Grid with advanced metering for facilitating efficient power usage Smart Grid requires infrastructure for data storage and processing Community cloud can provide back-end for processing and storage connected through community mesh networks
17. RESEARCH WITH COMMUNITY NETWORKS
18. Digital Ecosystem for Sustainability Community Cloud
19. Call for the ICT for development and sustainability research community to exploit community cloud and community networks as a different IT infrastructure model for the future for supporting innovative, sustainable, adaptive, scalable, integrated, autonomic solutions
20. Thank you Amin Khan amin.khan@ieee.org aminmkhan.com, clommunity-project.eu A Community networking Cloud in a box