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Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud

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An LCA was conducted on a novel Telco-grade cloud technology. Server cloudification has been found to significantly reduce the environmental life cycle impacts as compared to a non-cloud situation. Improving service quality is possible without drastically increasing the life cycle impacts as compared to the non-cloud situation. In this LCA, a novel methodology was used to model electricity flows during ICT use to better reflect the temporal variation in electricity generation by utilities and electricity consumption by ICT. Nevertheless, numerous methodological challenges remain unresolved and more research is required to improve the LCA methodological framework for ICT.

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The authors would like to thank NSERC for its financial support under grant CRDPJ 424371-11.

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    Thomas Dandres & Réjean Samson

  2. Ericsson Canada Inc., Montreal, Canada

    Reza Farrahi Moghaddam & Yves Lemieux

  3. Synchromedia - École de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec, Montreal, Canada

    Kim Nguyen & Mohamed Cheriet

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Dandres, T., Moghaddam, R.F., Nguyen, K., Lemieux, Y., Cheriet, M., Samson, R. (2016). Applications and Challenges of Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of a Green Sustainable Telco Cloud. In: Leon-Garcia, A., et al. Smart City 360°. SmartCity 360 SmartCity 360 2016 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33681-7_19

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