VScaler: Autonomic virtual machine scaling

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 212-219

  Yazdanov, Lenar ^a   Fetzer, Christof ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

measurement; performance; scalability

Indexed keywords

BILLING CYCLE; CLOUD APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; RECENT RESEARCHES; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

MEASUREMENTS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCALABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84897723736     PISSN: 21596182     EISSN: 21596190     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2013.142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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