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HPCC
2011
Springer
13 years 2 days ago
Achieving Performance and Availability Guarantees with Spot Instances
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
Michele Mazzucco, Marlon Dumas
TIT
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
On resource allocation in fading multiple-access channels-an efficient approximate projection approach
We consider the problem of rate and power allocation in a multiple-access channel. Our objective is to obtain rate and power allocation policies that maximize a general concave ut...
Ali ParandehGheibi, Atilla Eryilmaz, Asuman E. Ozd...
TIT
2008
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14 years 10 days ago
Power-Efficient Resource Allocation for Time-Division Multiple Access Over Fading Channels
We investigate resource allocation policies for time-division multiple access (TDMA) over fading channels in the power-limited regime. For frequency-flat block-fading channels and ...
Xin Wang, Georgios B. Giannakis
GRID
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Metascheduling Multiple Resource Types using the MMKP
Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
ATMN
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Local Allocation of End-to-End Quality-of-Service in High-Speed Networks
Quality-of-service (QOS) requirements for applications in high-speed networks are typically specied on an end-to-end basis. Mapping this end-to-end requirement to nodal requiremen...
Ramesh Nagarajan, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsl...
WSC
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Developing a national allocation model for cadaveric kidneys
The UNOS Kidney Allocation Model (UKAM) is a software tool for the simulation and analysis of national cadaveric kidney and kidney-pancreas allocation policies for transplantation...
Sarah E. Taranto, Ann M. Harper, Erick B. Edwards,...
ICDE
1991
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Read Optimized File System Designs: A Performance Evaluation
This paper presents a performance comparison of several file system allocation policies. The file systems are designed to provide high bandwidth between disks and main memory by...
Margo I. Seltzer, Michael Stonebraker
ECRTS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On Dominating Set Allocation Policies in Real-Time Wide-Area Distributed Systems
This paper investigates resource allocation policies for achieving real-time content distribution with subsecond delay bounds on the current Internet. Resource allocation in real-...
Chengdu Huang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Xue Liu