Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

A system and method for provisioning virtual machines in a virtualized environment includes
determining a relationship between capacity need and performance for virtual machines …

Cloud computing is a service where storage and computing resources can be accessed on
subscription basis. Cloud computing is powered by the concept of virtualization technology …

Recent advances in mobile devices and network technologies have set new trends in the
way we use computers and access networks. Cloud Computing, where processing and …

We study the problem of optimising the provisioning of collections of virtual machines (VMs)
having different placement constraints (eg, security and anti-collocation) and characteristics …

Hardware virtualization is the prevalent way to share data centers among different tenants.
In this paper we present a large scale workload characterization study that aims to a better …

Gang migration refers to the simultaneous live migration of multiple Virtual Machines (VMs)
from one set of physical machines to another in response to events such as load spikes and …

Organizations of all sizes are shifting their IT infrastructures to the cloud because of its cost
efficiency and convenience. Because of the on-demand nature of the Infrastructure as a …

In a virtualized datacenter, the Service Level Agreement for an application restricts the
Virtual Machines (VMs) placement. An algorithm is in charge of maintaining a placement …

Gathering detailed run-time information such as memory access traces in operating system
and security research often involves functional full system simulation (FFSS). The simulator …