IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Emerging Trends, Issues, and Challanges in Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is one of the most successful business models for providing a simple pay-as-you-go, and therefore is gaining much popularity in the industry. Customers and enterprises can maintain or scale-up a business easily while cutting down on their budget. However, energy consumption is one of the biggest problems in current cloud computing. It is both essential and urgent for governmental and industrial institutions to address this, to achieve rapid growth. The development of energy-efficient cloud computing has to be taken into consideration, which relies on the development of several key technologies: More energy-efficient mediums can be used in cloud computing at the platform level; energy-efficient scheduling algorithms, memory systems, storage systems, resource management policies, etc., can be adopted at the hypervisor level; energy-efficient scheduling, communications, and applications can be applied at the virtual machine level; and energy-efficient mobile cloud computing will be developed, involving green networking and wireless communications, cloud-based mobile applications, and limited resources management.