FlexCloud: A flexible and extendible simulator for performance evaluation of virtual machine allocation

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City, SmartCity 2015, Held Jointly with 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2015, 5th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2015, 2015 International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, DataCom 2015, 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing, SC2 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 649-655

  Xu, Minxian ^a   Li, Guozhong ^b   Yang, Wutong ^b   Tian, Wenhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud Data Centers; Flexibility and Extensibility; Performance Evaluation; Resource Scheduling Algorithms; Virtual Machine Allocation

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SIMULATORS;

CLOUD DATA CENTERS; FLEXIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESOURCE SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL MACHINE ALLOCATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84973894657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SmartCity.2015.143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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