An empirical analysis of similarity in virtual machine images

Proceedings of the Middleware 2011 Industry Track: Part of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jayaram, K R ^a   Peng, Chunyi ^b   Zhang, Zhe ^c   Kim, Minkyong ^c   Chen, Han ^c   Lei, Hui ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

caching; distribution; IaaS; similarity; virtual machine

Indexed keywords

CACHING; DISTRIBUTION; IAAS; SIMILARITY; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84863014251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2090181.2090187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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