Elastic management of web server clusters on distributed virtual infrastructures

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1474-1490

  Moreno Vozmediano, Rafael ^a   Montero, Ruben S ^a   Llorente, Ignacio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

cloud bursting; cloud computing; cluster based web server; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; VIRTUALIZATION;

CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLUSTER NODES; CLUSTER SIZES; CLUSTER-BASED WEB SERVER; DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVER; UTILIZATION RATES; VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES; WEB SERVER CLUSTER;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 80051784531     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1709     Document Type: Article

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