The network, similar to CPU and memory, is a critical and shared resource in the cloud.
However, unlike other resources, it is neither shared proportionally to payment, nor do cloud …

In current IaaS datacenters, tenants are suffering unfairness since the network bandwidth is
shared in a besteffort manner. To achieve predictable network performance for rented virtual …

To efficiently utilize their infrastructure and thus increase their revenue, cloud providers need
mechanisms to provide resource allocation and performance isolation for different tenants in …

A major challenging problem for cloud providers is designing efficient mechanisms for virtual
machine (VM) provisioning and allocation. Such mechanisms enable the cloud providers to …

With wide application of virtualization technology, tenants are able to access isolated cloud
services by renting the shared resources in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) datacenters …

Cloud providers provision their various resources such as CPUs, memory, and storage in
the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users. The users …

The emerging ecosystem of cloud applications leads to significant inter-tenant
communication across a datacenter's internal network. This poses new challenges for cloud …

Virtualization of resources on the cloud offers a scalable means of consuming services
beyond the capabilities of small systems. In a cloud that offers infrastructure such as …

One of the primary functions of a cloud service provider is to allocate cloud resources to
users upon request. Requests arrive in real-time and resource placement decisions must be …

BACKGROUND The rise of cloud computing in recent years has trans formed the way
computing applications are created and executed. Most cloud computing providers employ …