To improve resource utilization and energy efficiency, cloud data centers use virtual
machine (VM) consolidation to consolidate VMs to fewer physical machines (PMs) through …

Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation provides a promising approach to save energy and
improve resource utilization in data centers. Many heuristic algorithms have been proposed …

The large-scale virtualized Cloud data centers consume huge amount of electrical energy
leading to high operational costs and emission of greenhouse gases. Virtual machine (VM) …

Virtual machine (VM) consolidation techniques are a means to improve energy efficiency
and the utilization of cloud data center resources. However, aggressive VM consolidation …

Improving the energy efficiency while guaranteeing quality of services (QoS) is one of the
main challenges of efficient resource management of large-scale data centers. Dynamic …

To achieve energy efficiency in data centers, dynamic virtual machine (VM) consolidation as
a key technique has become increasingly important nowadays due to the significant …

Virtual machine (VM) consolidation is one of the key mechanisms of designing an energy-
efficient dynamic Cloud resource management system. It is based on the premise that …

In a data center, virtual machine consolidation has been proposed to improve the resource
utilization and energy efficiency. An effective and efficient virtual machine consolidation …

Efficient resource management in a Cloud data center relies on minimizing energy
consumption and utilizing physical resource efficiently while maintaining the service-level …

To meet the increasing demand of computational power, at present IT service providers'
should choose cloud based services for its flexibility, reliability and scalability. More and …