Work place: Department of CSE (AI & ML), CVR College of Engineering, India
E-mail: tv.ramana@cvr.ac.in
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Research Interests: Cloud Computing
Biography
Dr. T. Venkata Ramana received his Ph.D. from JNTU Hyderabad in the field of Image Processing. He has over 25 years of academic and professional experience, including 5 years in software training and development. He previously served as Director of Crystalite Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a software training and development organization.
He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) at CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His research interests include Image Processing, Network Security, Cloud Computing, and Project Management. He is a life member of ISTE and IAENG. He has guided more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate projects, published over 20 research articles in reputed international journals and conferences, authored four textbooks, and holds four patents.
By T. Venkata Ramanao Narendra Kumar Karthi Govindharaju D. Lakshmi Javvaji Venkata Rao B. H. Krishna Mohan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2026.05.08, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026
We present GreenCloud-RL, a formally defined scheduler for multi-cloud fleets that jointly optimizes carbon emissions, operational cost, and service-level agreement (SLA) risk. The scheduling problem is modeled as a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) in which expected cost–carbon reward is maximized subject to aggregate SLA-risk and power-cap constraints. The framework integrates (i) a physics-informed DVFS power model, (ii) queueing-theoretic latency predictors, (iii) probabilistic short-term forecasts of regional grid carbon intensity and electricity price with uncertainty penalties, and (iv) a dual-variable actor–critic algorithm that provably enforces constraint satisfaction online. We analyze the algorithm’s convergence under bounded rewards and provide distributed complexity bounds for large-scale multi-cloud control. Empirical evaluation on production-like workloads shows that GreenCloud-RL reduces SLA-violation rate by 37.6% and power-cap violations by 53.8%, while lowering mean tardiness to 1.9 s and improving throughput by 4.2% compared with strong baselines. A region×regime analysis (load ∈ {low, medium, high}; grid ∈ {clean, neutral, dirty}) demonstrates consistent reductions in both cost and carbon emissions without degrading SLA satisfaction. Post-hoc calibration improves reliability (ECE 4.8%→1.7%, lower Brier score), enabling trustworthy on-time probability estimates for risk-aware admission and tenant-tier guarantees. Scalability tests show a p95 scheduling latency of ≈41 ms at 100k jobs, ≈0.25 ms inference per decision, modest CPU/GPU overhead, and ≈5 s controller failover. These results establish, both theoretically and empirically, that multi-objective optimization of carbon, cost, and reliability is achievable in production-scale cloud environments while maintaining contractual SLA guarantees.
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