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Ron C. Chiang
Summary: This paper investigates performance interference in container clusters and proposes a new scheduler to improve performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the new scheduler can effectively improve the performance of distributed applications.
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(2023)
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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Narayani Raman, Aisha Banu Wahab, Sutherson Chandrasekaran
Summary: This paper introduces a priority-based backfilling backpropagation neural network hybrid scheduling algorithm for accurately measuring makespan and execution cost in a Cloud environment. By reducing the percentage of migration and utilizing the Berger model to measure fairness in resource allocation, the system can dynamically allocate tasks and improve resource utilization.
JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Jiachen Zu, Guyu Hu, Jiajie Yan, Siqi Tang
Summary: This paper studies the online placement and migration problem of virtual network functions in data centers considering user service function chains, and designs an online two-stage heuristic algorithm to optimize the placement of SFC. It is proven that the joint online heuristic algorithm can make intelligent predictions based on historical traffic and provide good performance guarantees.
COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Soha Rawas
Summary: The paper proposes an optimal resource allocation and consolidation virtual machine placement model for multi-tier applications in modern large cloud data centers, aiming to optimize energy and communication costs while improving overall cloud performance through Software Defined Networking control features.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Arunkumar Gopu, Kalaipriyan Thirugnanasambandam, R. Rajakumar, Ahmed Saeed Alghamdi, Sultan S. Alshamrani, K. Maharajan, Mamoon Rashid
Summary: Cloud computing is widely used in processing scientific workloads through remote servers accessed via the internet. This study proposes an efficient methodology using the NSGA-III algorithm to minimize resource wastage, power consumption, and network delay in virtual machine placement within a data center. The proposed algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in terms of overall nondominated vector generation and spacing, as validated through statistical tests.
JOURNAL OF CLOUD COMPUTING-ADVANCES SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Miguel Caballer, Marica Antonacci, Zdenek Sustr, Michele Perniola, German Molto
Summary: This paper introduces an architecture of open-source components that can deploy virtual elastic clusters across multiple cloud sites for large-scale computing. These hybrid virtual elastic clusters can be automatically deployed and configured, supporting automated tunneling of communications across cluster nodes.
JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING
(2021)
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Brice Ekane, Tu Dinh Ngoc, Boris Teabe, Daniel Hagimont, Noel De Palma
Summary: This paper introduces a mechanism called FlexVF, which dynamically allocates and switches between VFs and paravirtualized networking based on network activity monitoring, improving VM network performance by 75% without affecting network operation.
FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Haichun Zuo
Summary: The rapid growth of cloud services has led to a significant increase in the number of large-scale data centers. Shifting the costs from customers to service providers has brought benefits, but also limitations. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the virtual machine placement problem and different approaches to solving it, aiming to shed light on the challenges and issues of recent virtual machine placement strategies.
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Computer Science, Software Engineering
Javad Ahmadi, Abolfazl Toroghi Haghighat, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Reza Ravanmehr
Summary: This article proposes a dynamic consolidation framework to optimize energy consumption and resource utilization in data centers. By using QoS-aware and power-aware algorithms, the framework ensures load balancing of virtual machines and maximizes the use of active hosts. It guarantees QoS and avoids overhead for specific virtual machines. Simulation results with real workloads demonstrate that the proposed framework significantly improves service level agreement violations, migration numbers, and energy consumption.
SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
(2022)
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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Ehsan Khodayarseresht, Alireza Shameli-Sendi, Quentin Fournier, Michel Dagenais
Summary: This paper introduces an energy and carbon-aware initial VM placement strategy to minimize the total energy consumption and carbon emission of cloud data centers. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce energy consumption by 17% and carbon emissions by 6% on average compared to other competitor algorithms.
SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING-INFORMATICS & SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Automation & Control Systems
Luca Caviglione, Mauro Gaggero
Summary: Cyber-physical systems enable efficient, highly automated, and green smart industrial environments through the critical asset of computation. Suitable placement mechanisms can pursue various security and dependability goals in computing, preventing information leakages, providing redundancy, counteracting hardware outages or software aging, avoiding privacy breaks, and mitigating wastage of resources and energy.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Aditya Bhardwaj, C. Rama Krishna
Summary: This paper examines the performance comparison between container and hypervisor technologies, analyzes container cluster management orchestration systems and performance monitoring tools, and discusses future research directions, aiming to provide a better understanding of container technology and its application scenarios.
ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Wided Khemili, Jalel Eddine Hajlaoui, Mohamed Nazih Omri
Summary: Virtual Network Function (VNF) is a crucial component of Cloud networks that enables the separation of network functions and their dedicated hardware devices. This article proposes a new Fuzzy-FCA approach for VNF placement based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and fuzzy logic, which improves resource utilization efficiency and reduces latency.
JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Nawaf Alharbe, Mohamed Ali Rakrouki, Abeer Aljohani
Summary: In the context of the ongoing digital transformation in the healthcare field, this paper proposes an improved Ant Colony algorithm to address the virtual machine placement problem in cloud computing environments, aiming to minimize network traffic and maximize link utilization. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Guilherme Bueno, Mateus Saquetti, Pablo Rodrigues, Ivan Lamb, Luciano Gaspary, Marcelo C. Luizelli, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Jose Rodrigo Azambuja, Weverton Cordeiro
Summary: This article discusses the current state of programmable switch virtualization and explores key issues and opportunities related to the operation and management of virtual switches. It also introduces PvS, a management layer that focuses on secure and independent management of programmable virtual switches.
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Vahid Khajehvand, Hossein Pedram, Mostafa Zandieh
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(2013)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Somayeh Rahmani, Vahid Khajehvand
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
(2020)
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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Om-Kolsoom Shahryari, Hossein Pedram, Vahid Khajehvand, Mehdi Dehghan TakhtFooladi
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Computer Science, Software Engineering
Negin Najafizadegan, Eslam Nazemi, Vahid Khajehvand
Summary: Cloud computing faces challenges in energy management, and a new model based on MAPE-k loop for autonomous virtual machine selection has been proposed in this study. Experimental results show its advantage in improving the balance between service level agreement violations, energy consumption, and migration counts.
SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Om-Kolsoom Shahryari, Hossein Pedram, Vahid Khajehvand, Mehdi Dehghan TakhtFooladi
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PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yashar Salami, Vahid Khajehvand
Summary: Researchers have proposed a lightweight, secure key exchange scheme to reduce computational overhead in fog computing architecture. Through formal analysis and simulation testing, the results show that this scheme reduces computational overhead and transmitted data bits compared to the previous scheme.
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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Somayeh Rahmani, Vahid Khajehvand, Mohsen Torabian
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(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mohsen Torabian, M. B. Moghadam, Alireza Faraz
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(2010)
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
(2020)