• 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 ...
    • The Concept of Workload Delay as a Quality-of-Service Metric for Consolidated Cloud Environments with Deadline Requirements 

      Tasoulas, Evangelos; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Haugerud, Hårek; Yazidi, Anis; Bratterud, Alfred; Feng, Boning (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation in the cloud has received significant research interest. A large body of approaches for VM consolidation in data centers resort to variants of the bin packing problem which tries to ...
    • A Decentralized Approach for Homogenizing Load Distribution in Cloud Data Center Based on Stable Marriage Matching 

      Sangar, Disha; Haugerud, Hårek; Yazidi, Anis; Begnum, Kyrre Matthias (MEDES '19: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems;, Conference object, 2019)
      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 ...
    • Deployment Models: Towards Eliminating Security Concerns From Cloud Computing 

      Zhao, Gansen; Chunming, Rong; Jaatun, Martin Gilje; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010-08)
      Cloud computing has become a popular choice as an alternative to investing new IT systems. When making decisions on adopting cloud computing related solutions, security has always been a major concern. This article summarizes ...
    • A framework for evaluating continuous microservice delivery strategies 

      Lehmann, Martin; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The emergence of service-oriented computing, and in particular microservice architecture, has introduced a new layer of complexity to the already challenging task of continuously delivering changes to the end users. Cloud ...
    • 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 ...
    • Optimizing Power and Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing 

      Khan, Naveed; Haugerud, Hårek; Shrestha, Raju; Yazidi, Anis (MEDES '19: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems;, Conference object, 2019)
      With the exponential growth in cloud computing, the steadily increasing amount of power consumption due to the use of physical and virtual machines is becoming a serious challenge. In this context, we report a study on ...
    • 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 ...
    • Reference deployment models for eliminating user concerns on cloud security 

      Zhao, Gansen; Rong, Chunming; Jaatun, Martin Gilje; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-06-17)
      Cloud computing has become a hot topic both in research and in industry, and when making decisions on deploying/adopting cloud computing related solutions, security has always been a major concern. This article summarizes ...
    • 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 achieving a secure authentication mechanism for IoT devices in 5G networks 

      Santos, Bernardo; Dzogovic, Bruno; Feng, Boning; Do, Thuan Van; Jacot, Niels; Do, van Thanh (Chapter, 2019)
      Upon the new paradigm of Cellular Internet of Things, through the usage of technologies such as Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), a massive amount of IoT devices will be able to use the mobile network infrastructure to perform their ...