1. Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s
Progress Report within the
Perspective of the GSTC Project
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam
Synchromedia Lab, ETS, University of Quebec (UduQ), Montreal, QC, Canada
GSTC Project, TWGs Workshop
April 1st, 2014, ETS, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2. Outline
• Research Axes
• AX1
• AX3
• Disseminations and Publications
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

3. Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s
Research Axes
• Axes 1: Green Computing
• Axes 2: Sustainable Cloud Computing
• Axes 3: Behavior Analysis of Systems,
Ecosystems, & Experts
• Axes 4: Green Economy
• Axes 5: Perceptual Analysis
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

4. • Smart and efficient operation of ICT equipment:
– Especially Servers and Switches (Routers)
• Goal: Reducing Water consumption, Energy
consumption and environmental [GHG] footprint
– WEG footprint
– Ex: Avoiding Peak Hours
• Indirect impacts of ICT activities outside their
jurisdiction, and outside their operating time interval:
– Scope-based modeling (Scope 3 models)
– Life cycle assessment (LCA)
– Not compatible  Need for a new sustainability model
(AX1) Green
Computing
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

5. The Traditional Sustainability Model: In the E-
perspective of the proposed model [PoS3]
Society(ies)
Nature(s)
Economy(ies)
(AX1) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

6. A Novel Sustainability Model: The Proposed
Sustainability Pentagon (E-perspective) [PoS3]
Enterprise(s)
Society(ies)
Individual(s)Nature(s)
Economy(ies)
(AX1) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

7. Flattened Sustainability Model:
Life Cycle Assessment Model [PoS3]
(AX1) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

8. Impact of ICT’s Energy Consumption on
the Global Electricity Security
• Water Utilization of Power Plants
– Even solar power could be unsustainable.
– Large scale solar power plants (similar to natural gas power plants):
• Water consumption (washing, wet cooling systems)
• Heat dissipation into atmosphere from the cooling system
• Drought Analysis in China/USA for ICT Provisioning
– Drought Patterns (Short-term and Mid-term)
– Drought Impacts on Infrastructure (Water and Electricity)
• Risk of competition between ICT and Agriculture & Potable Water
– Risk of limiting regional electricity consumption and also ICT
developments (in-Data Centers and in-House)
(AX1) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

9. Cooling System (Support)
• Modeling traditional air-based cooling systems:
– CRAC/Chillers/CT (Air/Air/Liquid/Air)
– Fully automated and self-optimized cooling systems
• Design and Evaluation of liquid-based systems
– Modular designs
– New mechanical designs for blades
– New thermal designs for cold plates
– Hybrid designs: LiquSolid/Air/Liquid/Air and LiquSolid/Liquid/Liquid/Air
• Data Centers in Canada’s North [PoS2]
– Modular & Low on Maintenance
– Low Temperature & Abandoned Renewable Energy Sources
(Wind/Hydro)
(AX1) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

10. • Applications of virtualization, consolidation,
multi-tenancy, and multi-enterprise toward
socio-eco-environmental-friendly and
sustainable ICT systems, ecosystems, and
services
(AX2) Sustainable Cloud
Computing
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

11. • Behavior analysis toward enabling highly
efficient operation of systems and ecosystems
while increasing their services’ dependability,
reliability, and availability.
• Smart management of regulated (systems) or
unregulated (ecosystems) of heterogeneous
group of actors ranging from simple
components, to service providers, to end users,
and to experts.
(AX3) Behavior Analysis of Systems
& Ecosystems
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

12. Behavior Analysis of Telco Clouds [PoS2]
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

13. Behavior Analysis of Telco Clouds [PoS1],
Cont’d
• Failure-aware
management of
network fabric
– Redundancy
– Cognitive discrete
operating time
intervals
• Optimization with
respect to the TCO
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

14. Behavior Analysis of Telco Clouds [PoS2],
Cont’d
• New Topologies:
– FatTree*
– BCube*
– MDCube2D*
• Switches with high
number of ports
• Scalable to a high
number of nodes (ex: 3
Million nodes)
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

15. Behavior Analysis of Telco Clouds [PoS2],
Cont’d
• Failure analysis over
full lifespan of Modular
Data Centers (MDCs)
• Optimal, new network
topologies and fabric
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

16. Wind Power Modeling and Analysis
• Optimal operation of wind farms
– Lowering the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs
• Optimal intra-wind farm operation
– Spatial Dependency and Optimal placement of Turbines
• Optimal integration with the grid
– Provisioning secondary or flexible power plants to
compensate of volatility of wind-based power
– Lowering the risk associated to the higher shares of wind-
based power in the whole grid mix (more than 10% of the
grid mix)
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

17. Smart House
• Smart House: The building block of Smart Gird
• Beyond Smart Grid: House of Future
– Quality of Experience
– Passivity toward Nature
• Smart/Intelligence:
– Centralized vs Federated: Performance vs Security
– Hidden, considerable footprint of sensors and controllers
– Reduction of Energy Consumption of buildings
– Managing the peak hours’ Consumption of buildings
– Residential Solar/Wind Power Integration with house, not with the grid
(AX3) Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

18. My Collaborators
• Dr Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam (AX1 & AX3)
• Dr Vahid Asghari (AX3)
• Dr Habib Louafi (AX3)
• Prof Mohamed Cheriet (PI)
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

19. Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s
Disseminations
Published or Submitted Papers (With my lead in AX1 to AX3):
[PoS1] - R Farrahi Moghaddam, et. al., Cognitive Behavior Analysis framework
for Fault Prediction in Cloud Computing, NoF’12. Available:
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NOF.2012.6464008] and [http://goo.gl/27fFNU].
[PoS2] - R Farrahi Moghaddam, et. al., Failure-aware Lifespan Performance
Analysis of Network Fabric in Modular Data Centers: Toward Deployment in
Canada's North, Submitted 2014. Available: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7528].
[PoS3] - R Farrahi Moghaddam, et. al., Challenges and complexities in
application of LCA approaches in the case of ICT for a sustainable future,
Submitted to ICT4S 2014. Available: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2798].
Work-In-Progress Papers (With my lead in AX1 to AX3):
[WiP1] - R Farrahi Moghaddam, et. al., LCA and footprint of ICT/Telcos, Working
paper, April 2014.
[WiP2] - R Farrahi Moghaddam, et. al., Immersed ICT: A vision toward ICT as a
Part of Life, Working paper, November 2013.
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14

20. Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s
Disseminations, Cont’d
Published or Submitted Papers (Without my lead in AX1 to AX3):
5 papers published.
Published or Submitted Papers (With my lead in AX4):
2 papers published.
Work-In-Progress Papers (With my lead in AX4):
2 papers Work-in-Progress.
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam’s Progress Report, GSTC TWGs WS’14