Empirical evaluation of latency-sensitive application performance in the cloud

MMSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMM Conference on Multimedia Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-46

  Barker, Sean Kenneth ^a   Shenoy, Prashant ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Multimedia; Resource isolation; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GAME SERVERS; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES; NETWORK JITTER; NETWORKED APPLICATIONS; ON-DEMAND; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; RESOURCE CONTROL; SENSITIVE APPLICATION; STORAGE RESOURCES; STREAMING SERVERS; VARYING BACKGROUND; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL SERVERS; VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

BENCHMARKING; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); JITTER; SERVERS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951282331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730836.1730842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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