Game Theory for Green Datacenters

In order to operate a datacenter only with renewable energies, a negotiation has to be undertaken between the sources providing and storing the energy (solar panels, wind turbine, batteries, hydrogen tanks) and the consumers of the energy (basically the IT infrastructure).

In the context of the ANR DATAZERO2 project (datazero.org), a negotiation module has to be improved, starting from a existing proof of concept already published. The improvement will be included in a dedicated module, interoperable with a functioning middleware developed in the project. All the necessary connections have already been developed and are not part of this internship where we want to focus on the game theory problem.

One of the key issue is to understand if (and when) cooperative or adverserial games are the most suitable to find an acceptable compromise between the two players: the consumers always want the maximum of power, while the producers want to be sure to always keep energy availability.

This internship will :

• formalize the problem based on the already existing work
• explore different game theory options from a theoretical point of view
• explore alternatives to game theory is an option (e.g. in the decision theory field)
• integrate the most promising one in the running middleware

This work can be considered as a follow-up of the research published in ISPA2020 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9443918) and in FGCS (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X17300092).

Application:

You can submit your application (CV/Cover Letter) to Jean-Marc Pierson (Jean-Marc.Pierson@irit.fr) and Georges Da Costa (georges.da-costa@irit.fr)