{AGILE}: elastic distributed resource scaling for {infrastructure-as-a-service}

H Nguyen, Z Shen, X Gu, S Subbiah… - … Conference on Autonomic …, 2013 - usenix.org
Dynamically adjusting the number of virtual machines (VMs) assigned to a cloud application
to keep up with load changes and interference from other uses typically requires detailed …

Cloudprophet: towards application performance prediction in cloud

A Li, X Zong, S Kandula, X Yang, M Zhang - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Choosing the best-performing cloud for one's application is a critical problem for potential
cloud customers. We propose CloudProphet, a trace-and-replay tool to predict a legacy …

Empirical prediction models for adaptive resource provisioning in the cloud

S Islam, J Keung, K Lee, A Liu - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Cloud computing allows dynamic resource scaling for enterprise online transaction systems,
one of the key characteristics that differentiates the cloud from the traditional computing …

Host load prediction in a Google compute cloud with a Bayesian model

S Di, D Kondo, W Cirne - SC'12: Proceedings of the …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prediction of host load in Cloud systems is critical for achieving service-level agreements.
However, accurate prediction of host load in Clouds is extremely challenging because it …

Analysis, modeling and simulation of workload patterns in a large-scale utility cloud

IS Moreno, P Garraghan, P Townend… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the characteristics and patterns of workloads within a Cloud computing
environment is critical in order to improve resource management and operational conditions …

{CosTLO}:{Cost-Effective} Redundancy for Lower Latency Variance on Cloud Storage Services

Z Wu, C Yu, HV Madhyastha - 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked …, 2015 - usenix.org
We present CosTLO, a system that reduces the high latency variance associated with cloud
storage services by augmenting GET/PUT requests issued by end-hosts with redundant …

Aggressive resource provisioning for ensuring QoS in virtualized environments

J Liu, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, D Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elasticity has now become the elemental feature of cloud computing as it enables the ability
to dynamically add or remove virtual machine instances when workload changes. However …

Tradeoffs between profit and customer satisfaction for service provisioning in the cloud

J Chen, C Wang, BB Zhou, L Sun, YC Lee… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The recent cloud computing paradigm represents a trend of moving business applications to
platforms run by parties located in different administrative domains. A cloud platform is often …

Proactive workload management in hybrid cloud computing

H Zhang, G Jiang, K Yoshihira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The hindrances to the adoption of public cloud computing services include service reliability,
data security and privacy, regulation compliant requirements, and so on. To address those …

Resource management in clouds: Survey and research challenges

B Jennings, R Stadler - Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2015 - Springer
Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …