Opening PhD position in Power Consumption Modeling and Management in cloud

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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Catan Andreea Corina
The Synchromedia Lab at the Ecole de Technologie Superieur (University of Quebec) is seeking for a PhD candidate with a specialty in power consumption modeling and management in cloud.

Relying heavily on the computing power of data centers, cloud-based service is enabling the establishment of entirely new industries and unlocking vast potential for innovation in existing ones, like education, health care, energy, the public sectors, and knowledge dissemination. As a result, larger data centers are required to host increasingly critical applications. This raises new questions, in terms of scalability, resiliency and operational cost-effectiveness, and power consumption and environmental concerns in particular. A recent study has pointed out that data centers in Canada are operating at only four percent of capacity. Novel paradigms are therefore required to reduce such massive waste due to comatose servers and overprovision, as well as new energy efficient approaches to design and manage data centers.



The Green Telco Cloud project, supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and Ericsson, is aimed at developing the first green cloud model that supports large-scale Telco applications.

This PhD thesis will investigate energy consumption & carbon emission models in Telco cloud. Mathematical formulations will be built to calculate carbon emissions resulting from energy consumption, taking into account the type of energy, the humidity, and temperature. Optimization models will be developed to allocate/relocate resources in cloud while minimizing power consumption and carbon footprint. Based on machine learning techniques, behaviours of cloud will be analyzed and then operational strategies will be proposed to maximize the utilization of green power.