Who is your neighbor: Net I/O performance interference in virtualized clouds

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 314-329

  Pu, Xing ^a   Liu, Ling ^b   Mei, Yiduo ^c   Sivathanu, Sankaran ^b   Koh, Younggyun ^d   Pu, Calton ^b   Cao, Yuanda ^e  

^a State Radio Monitoring Center   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; performance measurement; virtualization

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PERFORMANCE; EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84883777958     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2012.2     Document Type: Article

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