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Dynamic deployment of virtual machines in cloud computing using multi-objective optimization

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Cloud computing is regarded as the fifth utility service and is the next generation of computation. The computing resources can be dynamically allocated according to consumer requirements and preferences Virtual machine deployment has an important role in cloud computing, and aims to reduce turnaround times and improve resource use. In essence, the deployment of virtual machines is a multi-objective decision problem that must consider key factors. That is, we need to optimize the resource use and migration times. In this paper, we propose the multi-objective comprehensive evaluation model for the dynamic deployment of virtual machines. We then use an improved multi-objective particle swarm optimization (IMOPSO) to solve the problem. We have designed two simulation experiments using the CloudSim toolkit: the first experimental results show that on comparison of our improved algorithm with the traditional single-objective algorithms PSO and QPSO, our method is feasible and efficient; the second experimental results show that IMOPSO can search effectively, maintain population diversity, and quickly converge to the Pareto optimal solution without losing stability. The obtained Pareto optimal solution set has a better convergence and distribution than a comparative method.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61272382), Science and Technology Foundation for the Universities of Guangxi Province (Grant No. 2013ZD060), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12JJ6063), and Guangdong Province Science and Technology Project (Grant No. 2012B010100037).

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Petrochemical Equipment Fault Diagnosis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Guangdong , 525000, China

    Bo Xu & Zhiping Peng

  2. School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangdong , 510006, China

    Bo Xu & Fangxiong Xiao

  3. School of Information and Statistics, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Guangxi , 530003, China

    Fangxiong Xiao

  4. Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI , 96813, USA

    Antonio Marcel Gates

  5. Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing and Stochastic Information Processing (Ministry of Education of China), College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hunan Normal University, Hunan , 410081, China

    Jian-Ping Yu

  6. High Technology Research Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Networks of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Jangshu , 210003, China

    Jian-Ping Yu

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Xu, B., Peng, Z., Xiao, F. et al. Dynamic deployment of virtual machines in cloud computing using multi-objective optimization. Soft Comput 19, 2265–2273 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1406-6

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