An Orchestrated Smart City Data Center Design for Satisfying Smart City Application Needs

Abstract

Designing a data center is always sophisticated, especially for a smart city. Understanding smart city requirements regarding hosted services and applications is mandatory. However, there are numerous challenges in designing the data center for a smart city, but the most challenging points are security and disaster recovery. The data center's passive and active designs are jointly more challenging to provide minimum cost and delay while maximizing the capacity, security, and availability. There are several efforts in the literature to tackle them individually, while this paper provides an orchestrated data center design model proposed as a design model and as a distributed per-rack model. The paper design provides a better investigation of the city requirements, the data center applications, and the service availability perspective compared to previous designs found in the literature.