Huan Zhou

Distributed service‐level agreement management with smart contracts and blockchain

2020 · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience

Summary The current cloud market is dominated by a few providers, which offer cloud services in a take‐it‐or‐leave‐it manner. However, the dynamism and uncertainty of cloud environments may require the change over time of both …

Virtual Infrastructure Planning For A Workflow With Multiple Overlapping Deadline Constraints In Cloud

2018 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Cloud providers offer various types of virtual infrastructures (e.g. Virtual Machines, Dockers) to consumers in a pay-as-you go manner. For an application represented by a complex workflow, it is difficult for the consumer to decide …

Optimization of Virtual Machine Layout in Cloud Data Center Based on Server Power Consumption Characteristics

2023

Cloud data centers consume huge amounts of energy. More and more research focus on energy conservation and consumption reduction in data centers, and one of the important directions is the layout optimization of virtual machines …