Power management by load forecasting in web server clusters

Cluster Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 471-481

  Santana, Carlos ^a   Leite, Julius C B ^a   Mossé, Daniel ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b Learning Research and Development Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

Load forecasting; Power management; Quality of service; Web server clusters

Indexed keywords

APACHE SERVER; BUSINESS MODELS; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY SCALING; ENERGY COST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; LOAD FORECASTING; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; QOS (QUALITY OF SERVICE); REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; SOFT REAL TIME; USER'S SATISFACTION; WEB APPLICATION; WEB SERVER CLUSTER; WEB SERVERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FORECASTING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEB SERVICES;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 81355146506     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-011-0187-2     Document Type: Article

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