Dynamic cloud instance acquisition via IaaS cloud brokerage

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1580-1593

  Wang, Wei ^a   Niu, Di ^b   Liang, Ben ^a   Li, Baochun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

approximation algorithm; cloud brokerage; Cloud computing; cost management; instance reservation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

CLOUD PROVIDERS; COST MANAGEMENT; DYNAMIC STRATEGIES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; INSTANCE RESERVATION; MULTIPLEXING GAINS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; PRICE DISCOUNT;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84929312220     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2014.2326409     Document Type: Article

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