Combined power and performance management of virtualized computing environments serving session-based workloads

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 245-258

  Kusic, Dara ^a   Kandasamy, Nagarajan ^b   Jiang, Guofei ^c  

^a NIGMS Human Mutant Cell Repository   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Power management; predictive control; resource provisioning; virtualization technologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL FRAMEWORK; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; LARGE SYSTEM; LOOK-AHEAD CONTROL; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; ON-LINE SERVICE; ONLINE RESOURCES; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATION; SERVER CLUSTER; SWITCHING COSTS; TRACE-BASED SIMULATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 80052607639     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2011.0726.100045     Document Type: Article

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