Performance analysis of network I/O workloads in virtualized data centers

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-63

  Mei, Yiduo ^a   Liu, Ling ^b   Pu, Xing ^c   Sivathanu, Sankaran ^b   Dong, Xiaoshe ^d  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c State Radio Monitoring Center   (China)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; performance measurement; resource scheduling; virtualization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84875043225     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2011.36     Document Type: Article

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