A distributed self-learning approach for elastic provisioning of virtualized cloud resources

IEEE International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-54

  Rao, Jia ^a   Bu, Xiangping ^a   Xu, Cheng Zhong ^a   Wang, Kun ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; HARDWARE RESOURCES; ITERATION STEP; KEY IMPEDIMENTS; LEARNING ENGINE; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; ON-THE-FLY; PERFORMANCE COSTS; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; RESOURCE REQUEST; RESOURCE VIRTUALIZATION; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SELF-LEARNING; TIME VARYING; USER DEMANDS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80052999647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2011.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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