Virtual machine migration in cloud data centers: a review, taxonomy, and open research issues

RW Ahmad, A Gani, SH Ab. Hamid, M Shiraz… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Virtualization efficiently manages the ever-increasing demand for storage, computing, and
networking resources in large-scale Cloud Data Centers. Virtualization attains multifarious …

Multi-objective communication-aware optimization for virtual machine placement in cloud datacenters

S Farzai, MH Shirvani, M Rabbani - Sustainable Computing: Informatics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper formulates a new multi-objective virtual machine placement (VMP) problem,
which is a challenging task in cloud datacenters (DCs). In cloud environment, there are two …

Quantitative comparisons of the state‐of‐the‐art data center architectures

K Bilal, SU Khan, L Zhang, H Li, K Hayat… - Concurrency and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Data centers are experiencing a remarkable growth in the number of interconnected servers.
Being one of the foremost data center design concerns, network infrastructure plays a pivotal …

On the characterization of the structural robustness of data center networks

K Bilal, M Manzano, SU Khan, E Calle… - … on Cloud Computing, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers being an architectural and functional block of cloud computing are integral to
the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Cloud computing is rigorously …

Data center network architecture in cloud computing: review, taxonomy, and open research issues

H Qi, M Shiraz, J Liu, A Gani, Z Abdul Rahman… - Journal of Zhejiang …, 2014 - Springer
The data center network (DCN), which is an important component of data centers, consists of
a large number of hosted servers and switches connected with high speed communication …

Energy-efficient data centers

J Shuja, SA Madani, K Bilal, K Hayat, SU Khan… - Computing, 2012 - Springer
Energy consumption of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector has
grown exponentially in recent years. A major component of the today's ICT is constituted by …

Energy efficient VM scheduling and routing in multi-tenant cloud data center

S Ch, T Ramesh - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Cloud data center hosting many composite applications of multiple tenants consumes a
massive amount of energy. Develo** energy efficient mechanisms for data center …

Addressing network bottlenecks with divide-and-shuffle synchronization for distributed dnn training

W Wang, C Zhang, L Yang, K Chen… - IEEE INFOCOM 2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) is the de-facto paradigm for distributed DNN training in
today's production clusters. However, due to the global synchronization nature, its …

On implementation of DCTCP on three-tier and fat-tree data center network topologies

S Zafar, A Bashir, SA Chaudhry - SpringerPlus, 2016 - Springer
A data center is a facility for housing computational and storage systems interconnected
through a communication network called data center network (DCN). Due to a tremendous …

Srifty: Swift and thrifty distributed neural network training on the cloud

L Luo, P West, P Patel… - … of Machine Learning …, 2022 - proceedings.mlsys.org
Finding the best VM configuration is key to achieve lower cost and higher throughput, two
primary concerns in cloud-based distributed neural network (NN) training today. Optimal VM …