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Scheduling and efficient energy utilization in cloud system
Cloud computing is an emerging topic on software and distributed computing based on Internet, which means users can access storages and applications from remote servers by web browsers or other fixed or mobile terminals. In a cloud framework different services such as servers, storage in the form of data as well as Big data, resources etc are given to a management's computers and different devices on interest through the Internet. Multiple clients want to run their jobs or cloudlets in the cloud at a particular instant of time. The tasks are executed depending on the number of processors available and the scheduling policy of the cloud. In a cloud simulation software such as CloudSim a two level scheduling in the form of Space-shared and Time-shared can be used in collaboration with First Come First Serve(FCFS). An efficient way of job scheduling in cloud is to assign weightage or priority to the various parameters coming along with the job also taking into consideration the priority value set by the client to the task. In this thesis an attempt has been made to develop an efficient priority algorithm for the jobs running in the cloud. Also an attempt has been made to reduce the energy consumption at a particular over utilized node as well as switching idle nodes to the sleep mode thereby optimizing resource usage and reducing energy consumption
Software-Defined Cloud Computing: Architectural Elements and Open Challenges
The variety of existing cloud services creates a challenge for service
providers to enforce reasonable Software Level Agreements (SLA) stating the
Quality of Service (QoS) and penalties in case QoS is not achieved. To avoid
such penalties at the same time that the infrastructure operates with minimum
energy and resource wastage, constant monitoring and adaptation of the
infrastructure is needed. We refer to Software-Defined Cloud Computing, or
simply Software-Defined Clouds (SDC), as an approach for automating the process
of optimal cloud configuration by extending virtualization concept to all
resources in a data center. An SDC enables easy reconfiguration and adaptation
of physical resources in a cloud infrastructure, to better accommodate the
demand on QoS through a software that can describe and manage various aspects
comprising the cloud environment. In this paper, we present an architecture for
SDCs on data centers with emphasis on mobile cloud applications. We present an
evaluation, showcasing the potential of SDC in two use cases-QoS-aware
bandwidth allocation and bandwidth-aware, energy-efficient VM placement-and
discuss the research challenges and opportunities in this emerging area.Comment: Keynote Paper, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing,
Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2014), September 24-27, 2014, Delhi,
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