Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters

Abstract: Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a novel carbon-aware temporal data transfer scheduling framework, called LinTS, which promises to significantly reduce the carbon emission of data transfers between cloud data centers. LinTS produces a competitive transfer schedule and makes scaling decisions, outperforming common heuristic algorithms. LinTS can lower carbon emissions during inter-datacenter transfers by up to 66% compared to the worst case and up to 15% compared to other solutions while preserving all deadline constraints.