Virtualization and consolidation are two complementary techniques widely adopted in a global strategy to reduce system management complexity. In this paper we show how two simple ...
Abstract— Shared computing utilities allocate compute, network, and storage resources to competing applications on demand. An awareness of the demands and behaviors of the hosted...
Active-network technology envisions deploying execution environments in network elements so that application-specific processing can be applied to network traffic. To provide safe...
Virginie Galtier, Kevin L. Mills, Yannick Carlinet
Network control and management techniques (e.g., dynamic path switching, on-demand bandwidth provisioning) rely on active measurements of end-to-end network status. These measureme...
In this paper we introduce a new approach to the consolidation strategy of a data center that allows an important reduction in the amount of active nodes required to process a het...
Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Kevin Hogan, Ricard G...