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Fast advance in the design of 5G cellular networks has motivated a lot of research that addresses challenges given by...

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This thesis tackles the optimization of energy efficiency in data centers in terms of network and server utilization.

We consider online task computing environments such as volunteer computing platforms running on BOINC (e.g., SETI@home) and crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. We model the computations as an Internet-based task computing system under the master-worker paradigm. A master entity sends tasks across the Internet, to worker entities willing to perform a computational task.