Implementing scalable, network-aware virtual machine migration for cloud data centers

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 557-564

  Tso, Fung Po ^a   Hamilton, Gregg ^a   Oikonomou, Konstantinos ^b   Pezaros, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Ionian University   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Cloud Data Centers; Distributed Virtual Machine Migration; Resource Consolidation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DATA CENTERS; COMMUNICATION COST REDUCTION; COORDINATION POLICIES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL MACHINES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RESOURCE CONSOLIDATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HARDWARE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84897717313     PISSN: 21596182     EISSN: 21596190     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2013.82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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