VDC-Analyst: Design and verification of virtual desktop cloud resource allocations

Computer Networks

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-122

  Calyam, Prasad ^a,b,c   Rajagopalan, Sudharsan ^a,b,c   Seetharam, Sripriya ^a,b,c   Selvadhurai, Arunprasath ^a,b,c   Salah, Khaled ^a,b,c   Ramnath, Rajiv ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Cloud simulator; Cloud testbed experiment; Software defined networking; Utility directed resource allocation; Virtual desktop cloud

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING THEORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TESTBEDS;

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCHEMES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS; VIRTUAL DESKTOP CLOUDS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84902533685     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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