Energy-Aware Load Balancing and Application Scaling for the Cloud Ecosystem

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-27

  Paya, Ashkan ^a   Marinescu, Dan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

application scaling; energy proportional systems; idle servers; Load balancing; server consolidation

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS;

DESIRABLE FEATURES; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY-PROPORTIONAL SYSTEMS; OPERATION MODEL; OPTIMAL OPERATION; SCALING ALGORITHM; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SLEEP STATE;

POWER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85027697403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2396059     Document Type: Article

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