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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/JEET.2013.8.4.704

Reliability Modeling of Direct Current Power Feeding Systems for Green Data Center

Choi, Jung Yul (Division of Computer Engineering, Sungkyul University)

Publication Information

Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology / v.8, no.4, 2013 , pp. 704-711 More about this Journal

Abstract

Data center is an information hub and resource for information-centric society. Since data center houses hundreds to ten thousands servers, networking and communication equipment, and supporting systems energy saving is one of the hottest issues for green data center. Among several solutions for green data center this paper introduces higher voltage direct current (DC) power feeding system. Contrary to legacy alternating current (AC) power feeding system equipped with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), higher voltage DC power feeding system is reported to be a more energy efficient and reliable solution for green data center thanks to less AC/DC and DC/AC conversions. Main focus of this paper is on reliability issue for reliable and continuous operation of higher voltage DC power feeding system. We present different types of configuration of the power feeding systems according to the level of reliability. We analyze the reliability of the power feeding systems based on M/M/1/N+1/N+1 queueing model. Operation of the power feeding system in case of failure is also presented.

Keywords

Direct Current (DC); Failure; Green Data Center; Power Feeding Systems; Reliability;

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