• Achieving Intelligent Traffic-aware Consolidation of Virtual Machines in a Data Center Using Learning Automata 

      Jobava, Akaki; Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John; Begnum, Kyrre (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming increasingly pertinent and popular. A natural consequence of this is that many modern-day data centers experience very high internal traffic within the data centers themselves. The ...
    • An inhomogeneous Hidden Markov model for efficient virtual machine placement in a cloud computing enviroment 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Yazidi, Anis; Begnum, Kyrre (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-19)
      In a cloud environment virtual machines are created with different purposes like providing users with computers, handling web traffic etc. A virtual machine is created in such a way that a user will not notice any ...
    • An investigation of learning outcomes for MSc programs in Network and System Administration 

      Begnum, Kyrre; Border, Charles; Sijm, Niels (The USENIX Journal of Education in System Administration;1(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      What is the essence of a graduate-level system administration education? What skills and abilities of the candidate should educators focus on when developing a new program? This paper investigates the learning outcomes ...
    • Audition: a DevOps-oriented service optimization and testing framework for cloud environments 

      Borgenholt, Gaute; Begnum, Kyrre; Engelstad, Paal (Norsk informatikkonferanse;2013, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This paper demonstrates an approach to automated testing and quality assurance in cloud environments, which also takes deployment cost into consideration. With a distributed service architecture and some given performance ...
    • Déjà vu - Predicting the number of players in online games through normalization of historical data 

      Tyvand, Jon-Erik; Begnum, Kyrre; Hammer, Hugo Lewi (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      A key factor to delivering a good online gaming experience is to have sufficient server resources relative to the number of players online. In this work, we present a simple profiling technique which allows effective ...
    • Effective live migration of virtual machines using partitioning and affinity aware-scheduling 

      Yazidi, Anis; Ung, Fredrik; Haugerud, Hårek; Begnum, Kyrre (Computers and Electrical Engineering;volume 69 (2018), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-11)
      During maintenance and disaster recovery scenarios, Virtual Machine (VM) inter-site migrations usually take place over limited bandwidth—typically Wide Area Network (WAN)—which is highly affected by the amount of inter-VM ...
    • Enhancing creativity and play through accessible projector-based interactive PC-control touch technology 

      Begnum, Miriam Eileen Nes; Finstadsveen, Johan; Begnum, Kyrre (The proceedings of Unitech : International Conference on Universal Technologies;2010, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Standard computer peripherals are often challenging to use for mobility impaired, and in particular controlling computer mouse movements efficiently and without risking strain injuries. Projected touch screen technology ...
    • Evading a Machine Learning-based Intrusion Detection System through Adversarial Perturbations 

      Fladby, Torgeir; Haugerud, Hårek; Nichele, Stefano; Begnum, Kyrre; Yazidi, Anis (RACS: Research in Applied Computation Symposium; RACS '20: International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference proceeding, 2020-10)
      Machine-learning based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems provide significant value to organizations because they can efficiently detect previously unseen variations of known threats, new threats related to known ...
    • The Hydra: A layered, redundant configuration management approach for cloud-agnostic disaster recovery 

      Huang, Ke; Begnum, Kyrre (IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This paper demonstrates a bottom-up approach to developing autonomic fault tolerance and disaster recovery on cloud-based deployments. We avoid lock-in to specific recovery features provided by the cloud itself, and instead ...
    • IncludeOS: A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services 

      Bratterud, Alfred; Walla, Alf-Andre; Haugerud, Hårek; Engelstad, Paal E.; Begnum, Kyrre (IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science;2015, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      The emergence of cloud computing as a ubiquitous platform for elastically scaling services has generated need and opportunity for new types of operating systems. A service that needs to be both elastic and resource efficient ...
    • On achieving intelligent traffic-aware consolidation of virtual machines in a data center using Learning Automata 

      Jobava, Akaki; Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John; Begnum, Kyrre (Journal of Computational Science;Volume 24, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01)
      Unlike the computational mechanisms of the past many decades, that involved individual (extremely powerful) computers or clusters of machines, Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming increasingly pertinent and popular. Computing ...
    • Prosjekt Ymer : grafikkprosessering på sky 

      Granstad, Linda; Begnum, Kyrre (Norsk Informatikkonferanse;2010, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Skyteknologi er en teknologi som tilbyr et spekter av nye tjenester som er lite utprøvd på mange felt. Et av disse områdene er bruk av sky i forbindelse med grafikkprosessering. Vil det være mulig å få en renderfarm til ...
    • Reliable modeling of CPU usage in an office worker environment 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Yazidi, Anis; Begnum, Kyrre (Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing;2016, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In this paper, we present a novel and realistic model for modelling CPU usage of virtual machines on a cloud. The model is based on considering the CPU consumption of a virtual machine as a one generated from a Hidden ...
    • Saving the planet with bin packing - Experiences using 2D and 3D bin packing of virtual machines for greener clouds 

      Hage, Thomas; Begnum, Kyrre; Yazidi, Anis (Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Greener cloud computing has recently become an extremely pertinent research topic in academy and among practitioners. Despite the abundance of the state of the art studies that tackle the problem, the vast majority of ...
    • Simplified cloud-oriented virtual machine management with MLN 

      Begnum, Kyrre (Journal of Supercomputing;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03-25)
      System administrators are faced with the challenge of making their existing systems power-efficient and scalable. Although Cloud Computing is offered as a solution to this challenge by many, we argue that having multiple ...
    • Stable marriage matching for homogenizing load distribution in cloud data center 

      Sangar, Disha; Upreti, Ramesh; Haugerud, Hårek; Begnum, Kyrre; Yazidi, Anis (Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems; Volume 12390, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-20)
      Running a sheer virtualized data center with the help of Virtual Machines (VM) is the de facto-standard in modern data centers. Live migration offers immense flexibility opportunities as it endows the system administrators ...
    • Towards the InfiniBand SR-IOV vSwitch Architecture 

      Tasoulas, Evangelos; Gran, Ernst Gunnar; Johnsen, Bjørn Arne; Begnum, Kyrre; Skeie, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      To meet the demands of the Exascale era and facilitate Big Data analytics in the cloud while maintaining flexibility, cloud providers will have to offer efficient virtualized High Performance Computing clusters in a ...