Green Application Placement in the Cloud-IoT Continuum

Abstract: Green software engineering aims at reducing the environmental impact due to developing, deploying, and managing software systems. Meanwhile, Cloud-IoT paradigms can contribute to improving energy and carbon efficiency of application deployments by (i) reducing the amount of data and the distance they must travel across the network, (ii) by exploiting idle edge devices to support application deployment. In this article, we propose a declarative methodology and its Prolog prototype for determining placements of application services onto Cloud-IoT infrastructures so to optimise energy and carbon efficiency, also considering different infrastructure power sources and operational costs. The proposal is assessed over a motivating example.