Cost-efficient virtual machine provisioning for multi-tier web applications and video transcoding

Proceedings - 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 66-69

  Ashraf, Adnan ^a,b,c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Admission control; Cloud computing; Server consolidation; Video transcoding; Virtual machine provisioning; Web applications

Indexed keywords

META-HEURISTIC APPROACH; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; VIDEO-TRANSCODING; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WEB APPLICATION; WEB-BASED SERVICE;

ACCESS CONTROL; APPLICATIONS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRID COMPUTING; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84881297915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2013.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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