A Survey on Resource Scheduling in Cloud Computing: Issues and Challenges

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 217-264

  Singh, Sukhpal ^a   Chana, Inderveer ^a  

^a THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud resource scheduling; Cloud workloads; Resource distribution policies; Resource management; Resource provisioning; Resource scheduling algorithms; Resource scheduling aspects; Resource scheduling tools

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SURVEYS;

CLOUD RESOURCE SCHEDULING; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; RESOURCE SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84957582569     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: 15729184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-015-9359-2     Document Type: Review

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