Supporting soft real-time tasks in the Xen hypervisor

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 97-108

  Lee, Min ^a   Krishnakumar, A S ^b   Krishnan, P ^b   Singh, Navjot ^b   Yajnik, Shalini ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Avaya Lab Basking Ridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterprise telephony workloads; Laxity; Server consolidation; Virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE TELEPHONY WORKLOADS; LAXITY; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS; XEN;

INTERNET TELEPHONY; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 79959886151     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1837854.1736012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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