D. Lakshmi

Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Joseph's College of Engineering, OMR, Chennai, India

E-mail: lakhramdevan@gmail.com

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Biography

Dr. D. Lakshmi received her Ph.D. for her research on “Non-Invasive Tissue Characterization of Lungs using Low Dose CT Images.” She has more than 29 years of teaching experience in higher education.
She is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, OMR, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She guides undergraduate and research scholars in the areas of Medical Image Processing, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning for medical diagnostic applications. She is a recognized research supervisor of Anna University in the Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering and serves as a reviewer for reputed international journals. She has published 27 research papers in SCI and Scopus-indexed international journals and conferences.

Author Articles
GreenCloud-RL: Carbon-Aware Multi-Cloud Scheduling with SLA Guarantees

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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