Virtualization-based autonomic resource management for multi-tier Web applications in shared data center

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1591-1608

  Wang, Xiaoying ^a   Du, Zhihui ^a   Chen, Yinong ^b   Li, Sanli ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic computing; Multi tier Web application; Performance modeling; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CANNING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE (DIFFSERV); DYNAMIC APPROACH; FAILURE RATES; KEY TECHNIQUES; LARGE DATA; MULTI TIER APPLICATIONS; MULTI TIERED; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; OPERATIONAL COSTS; OPTIMIZING ALGORITHMS; OVERALL PERFORMANCE; OVERLOAD MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCHEMES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RM); RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (RMF); RESOURCE USAGE; SERVICE QUALITY; SHARED DATA; SHARED RESOURCES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; VIRTUAL SERVERS; VIRTUALIZATION; WEB APPLICATIONS;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 47549113043     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.11.719     Document Type: Article

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