Optimal Placement of Virtual Machines for Supporting Multiple Applications in Mobile Edge Networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 6533-6545

  Zhao, Lei ^a   Liu, Jiajia ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

average response time; Mobile edge computing; multiple applications; normalized total cost; virtual machine replica copy

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; EDGE COMPUTING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; NETWORK SECURITY; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

DELAYS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; VIRTUAL MACHINING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85042389867     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2018.2808171     Document Type: Article

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