Mapping virtual machines onto physical machines in cloud computing: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Pietri, Ilia ^a   Sakellariou, Rizos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; VM configuration; VM placement; VM scheduling

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; SURVEYS;

MAPPING PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL RESOURCE; VM CONFIGURATION; VM PLACEMENTS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84993982820     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2983575     Document Type: Article

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