Aggressive resource provisioning for ensuring QoS in virtualized environments

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 119-131

  Liu, Jinzhao ^a   Zhang, Yaoxue ^b   Zhou, Yuezhi ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   Liu, Hao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cloud computing; quality of service; Resource management; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIRTUALIZATION;

ADAPTATION DECISIONS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK; SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE; VIOLATION RATES; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUALIZED RESOURCES;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84933053305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2014.2353045     Document Type: Article

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