Datacenter at the airport: Reasoning about time-dependent parking lot occupancy

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2067-2080

  Arif, Samiur ^a   Olariu, Stephan ^a   Wang, Jin ^b   Yan, Gongjun ^c   Yang, Weiming ^d   Khalil, Ismail ^e  

^a ECS Building   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO   (United States)

^d CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; dynamic resource availability; inhomogeneous Poisson processes; resource estimation; stochastic models; vehicular clouds; vehicular networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AUTHORIZED USERS; CENTRAL SERVERS; CLOSED FORM; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; DYNAMIC GROUPS; DYNAMIC RESOURCES; ETHERNET CONNECTIONS; FUNCTION OF TIME; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; LIMITING BEHAVIOR; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PARKING LOTS; POISSON PROCESS; POWER OUTLET; RESOURCE ESTIMATION; STORAGE RESOURCES; TIME VARYING; TIME-DEPENDENT; VEHICULAR NETWORKS;

AIRPORTS; CLOUD COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84867305866     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.47     Document Type: Article

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