An integrated performance evaluation middleware for virtual resources in Cloud environments

International Review on Computers and Software

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 579-585

  Xiao, Peng ^a   Liu, Dongbo ^a   Qu, Peixin ^b  

^a HUNAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (China)

^b HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Performance evaluation; Queue theory; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SYSTEMS; CONDUCTING PERFORMANCE; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; QUEUE THEORY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICY; RUNTIME PERFORMANCE; TASK-SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL RESOURCE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84864353256     PISSN: 18286003     EISSN: 18286011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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