Providing reliability as an elastic service in cloud computing

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2912-2917

  Limrungsi, Nakharin ^a   Zhao, Juzi ^a   Xiang, Yu ^a   Lan, Tian ^a   Huang, H Howie ^a   Subramaniam, Suresh ^a  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

checkpoint; Cloud computing; data center; optimization; reliability

Indexed keywords

CHECK POINTING; CHECKPOINT; COMPUTING SERVICES; DATA CENTERS; DUAL DECOMPOSITION; ELASTIC SERVICES; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; ON-DEMAND SERVICES; PEER TO PEER; RELIABILITY LEVEL; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; VALIDATION RESULTS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84871985198     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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