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Energy, network, and application-aware virtual machine placement model in SDN-enabled large scale cloud data centers

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Cloud computing has been considered a core model of elastic on-demand resource allocation using a pay-as-you go model. One of the big challenges of this environment is to provide high quality service (QoS) through efficient and stringent management of cloud data center resources. With the increasing demand for cloud based services, the traffic volume inside cloud data centers (DC) has been increased exponentially. Accordingly, and to provide high QoS, a proper scheduling mechanism has to be followed by the cloud service provider. Furthermore, accurate scheduling is necessary for advancing the problem of energy consumption and resource utilization. In this paper, we propose an optimal resource allocation and consolidation virtual machine (VM) placement model for multi-tier applications in modern large cloud DCs. The proposed model targets to optimize the DCs’ energy and communication cost that influence the overall cloud performance through Software Defined Networking (SDN) control features. To solve the formulated multi-objective optimization problem, a novel adaptive genetic algorithm is proposed. The experimental results validate the efficacy of the proposed model through extensive simulations using synthetic and real workload traces. These results show that the proposed model jointly optimizes cloud QoS as well as energy consumption.

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Rawas, S. Energy, network, and application-aware virtual machine placement model in SDN-enabled large scale cloud data centers. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 15541–15562 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10616-6

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