Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offers service delivery flexibility and reduces overall
costs by running service function chains (SFCs) on commodity servers with many cores …

In the age of the cloud-native, container technology, referred as OS-level virtualization, is
increasingly adopted to deploy cloud applications. Compared with virtual machines …

Instantiated containers of an application are distributed across multiple Physical Machines
(PMs) to achieve high parallel performance. Container placement plays a vital role in …

Memory interferences may introduce important slowdowns in applications running on COTS
multi-core processors. They are caused by concurrent accesses to shared hardware …

We propose a methodology to address the programmability issues derived from the
emergence of new-generation shared-memory NUMA architectures. For this purpose, we …

This paper introduces two novel algorithms for thread migrations, named CIMAR (Core-
aware Interchange and Migration Algorithm with performance Record–IMAR–) and NIMAR …

Memory deduplication effectively relieves the memory space bottleneck by removing
duplicate pages, especially in virtualized systems in which virtual machines run the same …

Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture imposes numerous performance
challenges to today's cloud workloads. Due to the complexity and the massive scale of …

Server consolidation and virtualization technologies enable multiple end-users to share a
single physical server, substantially improving hardware utilization and reducing energy …

As the size of host storage increases, VMs on the same host would receive a larger virtual
storage, which is then divided into multiple virtual partitions. Each partition is sufficiently …