A Bin Packing Heuristic for On-Line Service Placement and Performance Control

• Published in: IEEE eTransactions on network and service management Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 326 - 339
• Main Authors: Reynolds, M. B., Hulce, D. R., Hopkinson, K. M., Oxley, M. E., Mullins, B. E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2013; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Computational modeling; Configuration control; control theory; Data centers; Distributed processing; Load modeling; Management; Network architecture; Networks; On-line systems; Placement; Servers; service systems optimization; Service-oriented architecture; Studies; Theorems; Time factors; Web services; web services management

The ever-increasing size and complexity of cloud computing, data centers, virtualization, web services, and other forms of distributed computing make automated and effective service management increasingly important. This article treats the service placement problem as a novel generalization of the...