Allocation of virtual machines in cloud data centers—a survey of problem models and optimization algorithms

ZÁ Mann - Acm Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2015 - dl.acm.org
Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

A survey and taxonomy of resource optimisation for executing bag-of-task applications on public clouds

L Thai, B Varghese, A Barker - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Cloud computing has been widely adopted due to the flexibility in resource provisioning and
on-demand pricing models. Entire clusters of Virtual Machines (VMs) can be dynamically …

Opportunistic task scheduling over co-located clouds in mobile environment

M Chen, Y Hao, CF Lai, D Wu, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing popularity of mobile devices, a new type of peer-to-peer communication
mode for mobile cloud computing has been introduced. By applying a variety of short-range …

A family of heuristics for agent-based elastic cloud bag-of-tasks concurrent scheduling

JO Gutierrez-Garcia, KM Sim - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
The scheduling and execution of bag-of-tasks applications (BoTs) in Clouds is performed on
sets of virtualized Cloud resources that start being exhausted right after their allocation …

An analysis of provisioning and allocation policies for infrastructure-as-a-service clouds

D Villegas, A Antoniou, SM Sadjadi… - 2012 12th IEEE/ACM …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, many commercial and private cloud computing providers offer resources for leasing
under the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) paradigm. Although an abundance of …

Resource optimization across the cloud stack

ZÁ Mann - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous work on optimizing resource provisioning in virtualized environments focused
either on mapping virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) or mapping …

Delay-optimal scheduling of VMs in a queueing cloud computing system with heterogeneous workloads

M Guo, Q Guan, W Chen, F Ji… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies virtual machine (VM) scheduling in a queueing cloud computing system
with stochastical arrivals of heterogeneous jobs by considering jobs' delay requirements …

Optimized application deployment in the fog

ZÁ Mann, A Metzger, J Prade, R Seidl - Service-Oriented Computing: 17th …, 2019 - Springer
Fog computing uses geographically distributed fog nodes that can supply nearby end
devices with low-latency access to cloud-like compute resources. If the load of a fog node …

Interplay of virtual machine selection and virtual machine placement

ZÁ Mann - Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: 5th IFIP WG …, 2016 - Springer
Previous work on optimizing resource provisioning in virtualized environments focused
either on mapping virtual machines to physical machines (ie, virtual machine placement) or …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient framework for ensemble of natural disaster simulations as a service

KC Ujjwal, S Garg, J Hilton - Geoscience Frontiers, 2020 - Elsevier
Calculations of risk from natural disasters may require ensembles of hundreds of thousands
of simulations to accurately quantify the complex relationships between the outcome of a …