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VMShadow: optimizing the performance of virtual desktops in distributed clouds

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Tian Guo,

Vijay Gopalakrishnan,

K. K. Ramakrishnan,

Prashant Shenoy,

Arun Venkataramani,

Seungjoon LeeAuthors Info & Claims

SOCC '13: Proceedings of the 4th annual Symposium on Cloud Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2523616.2525950

Published: 01 October 2013 Publication History

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We present VMShadow, a system that automatically optimizes the location and performance of applications based on their dynamic workloads. We prototype VMShadow and demonstrate its efficacy using VM-based desktops in the cloud as an example application. Our experiments on a private cloud as well as the EC2 cloud, using a nested hypervisor, show that VMShadow is able to discriminate between location-sensitive and location-insensitive desktop VMs and judiciously moves only those that will benefit the most from the migration. For example, VMShadow performs transcontinental VM migrations in ~ 4 mins and can improve VNC's video refresh rate by up to 90%.

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SOCC '13: Proceedings of the 4th annual Symposium on Cloud Computing

October 2013

427 pages

ISBN:9781450324281

DOI:10.1145/2523616

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Peng L(2016)GScheduler: Reducing Mobile Device Energy Consumption2016 4th Intl Conf on Applied Computing and Information Technology/3rd Intl Conf on Computational Science/Intelligence and Applied Informatics/1st Intl Conf on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (ACIT-CSII-BCD)10.1109/ACIT-CSII-BCD.2016.014(1-6)Online publication date: Dec-2016
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Zhang JHuang HWang X(2016)Resource provision algorithms in cloud computingJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2015.12.01864:C(23-42)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2015.12.018

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