Cloud Provider Research

The list of key optimization problems currently being solved from the cloud providers' perspective is shown below. If you would like to add/update your work to this list, please leave a comment with the model category, research title, authors, and publication date. One of our researchers will add it to the list after verification.

Cloud Provider OR Problems

Model Category	Research Title	Authors	Publication Date
Data Center Location Planning	Optimal Location of Data Centers and Software Components in Cloud Computing Network Design	Larumbe,F. Sanso,B.	2012
Data Center Capacity Planning	Energy Cost and Availability Considerations in Cloud Services Composition	Dube,P.	in progress
	Optimal Arrival And Service Control of Multi-server Queues with Application to Cloud Computing	Lee,N. Kulkarni,V.	in progress
	Selective Commitment and Selective Margin: Techniques to Minimize Cost in an IaaS Cloud	Hong,Y. Thottethodi,M. Xue,J.	in progress
	End-to-End Performability Analysis for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud: An Interacting Stochastic Models Approach	Ghosh,R. Trivedi,K. Naik,V. Kim,D.S.	in progress
	Design of a Power Efficient Cloud Computing Environment: Heavy Traffic Limits and QoS	Shroff,N. Sinha,P. Tan,J. Zheng,Y.	in progress
	Availability, At What Cost?	Naik,V. Ghosh,R. Longo,F. Trivedi,K.	in progress
	Asymptotic Service Availability in Large-scale Service Networks	Xia,C. George,D. Squillante,M.S.	in progress
	On the Power of (even a little) Resource Pooling	Tsitsiklis,J.N. Xu,K.	preprint
	Estimated system reliability of a cloud computing network subject to maintenance budget	Lin,Y. Chang,P.	2012
	Evaluating Overheads of Integrated Multilevel Checkpointing Algorithms in Cloud Computing Environment	Singh,D. Singh,J. Chhabra,A.	2012
	A Hierarchical Model to Evaluate Quality of Experience of Online Services hosted by Cloud COmputing	Qian,H. Medhi,D. Trivedi,K.	2011
	Designing and Evaluating an Energy Efficient Cloud	Lefevre,L. Orgerie,A.C.	2010
Data Center Scheduling	Online Dynamic Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers	Lin,M. Andrew,L. Liu,Z. Thereska,E. Wierman,A.	in progress
	Power-aware Linear Programming Based Scheduling for Heterogeneous Server Clusters	Al-Daoud,H. Al-Azzoni,I. Down,D.	in progress
	Online Dynamic Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers	Lin,M. Wierman,A. Andrew,L. Thereska,E.	in progress
	Efficient Control of an M/Mt/kt Queue with Application to Energy management in Data Centers	Mateus,C.R. Gautam,N.	preprint
	Adaptive scheduling strategies for cloud-based resource infrastructures	Deng,L. Yu,Q. Peng,J.	2012
	An Optimal Algorithm for Resource Scheduling in Cloud Computing	Li,Q.	2012
	On Energy-aware Aggregation of Dynamic Temporal Demand in Cloud Computing	Qian,H. Li,F. Medhi,D.	2012
	Server Operational Cost Optimization for Cloud Computing Service Providers over a Time Horizon	Qian,H. Medhi,D.	2011
	Optimality Analysis of Energy-performance Trade-off for Server Farm Management	Gandhi,A. Gupta,V. Harchol-Balter,M. Kozuch,M.	2010
Hardware Load Balancing	Provisioning for Large Scale Loss Network Systems with Application in Cloud Computing	Tan,Y. Lu,Y. Xia,C.	in progress
	Provisioning for Cloud Computing Services via Non-parametric Adaptive Learning	Tan,Y. Xia,C.	in progress
	Efficient Management of Demand Loads in Cloud Computing Environments	Sethuraman,S. Gautam,N. Ntaimo,L.	in progress
	An Efficient Service Policy for IaaS in Cloud Computing	Choi,J.Y. Kim,M.	in progress
	IP Column Generation for a Service Deployment Problem	Gullhav,A.N. Nygreen,B.	in progress
	Service Deployment Decisions in Cloud Data Centers Based on Service Level Agreements	Gullhav,A.N. Heegard,P. Nygreen,B.	in progress
	On Efficiently Placing Applications and contents	Gautam,N. Ntaimo,L. Sethuraman,S.	in progress
	Cloud Computing Management with Constraint Programming	Régin,J.	in progress
	Constraint Programming for Cloud Computing	Aharoni,M. Boni,O. Hadad,E. Moatti,Y.	in progress
	SLA-based Optimization of Power and Migration Cost in Cloud Computing	Goudarzi,H. Ghasemazar,M. Pedram,M.	preprint
	CloudGPS: A Scalable and ISP-Friendly Server Selection Scheme in Cloud Computing Environments	Ding,C. Chen,Y. Xu,T. Fu,X.	preprint
	Energy Efficient Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Data Centers	Beloglazov,A. Buyya,R.	preprint
	Policy based resource allocation in IaaS cloud	Nathani,A. Chaudhary,S. Somani,G.	2012
	Analysis of a Pool Management Scheme for Cloud Computing Centers	Hazaei,H. Misic,J. Misic,V. Rashwand,S.	2012
	Dual time-scale distributed capacity allocation and load redirect algorithms for cloud systems	Ardagna,D. Casolari,S. Colajanni,M. Panicucci,B.	2012
	Energy Efficient Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing Environments Based on Demand Forecast	Cao,J. Wu,Y. Li,M.	2012
	Optimizing QoS in Distributed Systems / Cloud Computing Architectures	Sahlin,J. Sarkani,S. Mazzuchi,T.	2012
	Model-driven auto-scaling of green cloud computing infrastructure	Dougherty,B. White,J. Schmidt,D.	2012
	Dynamic optimization of power and powerformance for virtualized server clusters	Petrucci,V. Loques,O. Mosse,D.	2010
	A game-theoretic method of fair resource allocation for cloud computing services	Wei,G. Vasilakos,A. Zheng,Y. Xiong,N.	2010
	A Business Driven Cloud Optimization Architecture	Litoiu,M. Woodside,M. Wong,J. Ng, J. Iszlai,G.	2010
Intrusion Detection / Prevention	Cloud Computing Infrastructure Robustness: A Game Theory Approach	Zhuang,J. He,F. Rao,N. Poole,S. Ma,C. Yau,D.	2012
	Understanding Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities	Grobauer,B. Walloschek,T. Stocker,E.	2011
Product/Services Packaging	Optimizing a Cloud-based Service Design using Social Media	Zadeh,A. Sharda,R.	in progress
	Service Differentiation in Large-Scale Systems	Yao,J. Maglaras,C. Zeevi,A.	in progress
	Risk-aware SLA Design for Enterprise Information Systems	Neumann,D. Hedwig,M. Malkowski,S.	in progress
	Competition Dynamics in Cloud Computing Market	Ghasemkhani,H. Tan,Y.	in progress
	Cloud Computing: Implications on Software Network Structure and Security Risks	August,T. Niculescu,M. Shin,H.	in progress
Product/Services Pricing	Pricing Differentiated Services in Cloud Computing Market	Du,L.	in progress
	Strategic Pricing and Capacity Planning in Cloud Computing Markets	Nunez,M. Bai,X. Du,L.	in progress
	Payment Incentives to Trade-off Speed and Quality in Large Service Systems	Ward,A. Zhan,D.	in progress
	The Economics of the Cloud: Price Competition and Congestion	Xu,Y. Anselmi,J. Ardagna,D. Liu,J. Wierman,A. Yang,Z.	in progress
	Pricing of Service in Clouds: Optimal Response and Strategic Interactions	Shanbhag,U. Kesidis,G. Bhuvan,U. Wang,C.	in progress
	Designing Pricing Policies for Cloud Service Providers	Sharma,M. Basu,S. Chakraborty,S.	in progress
	Efficient Resource Provisioning in Compute Clouds via VM Multiplexing	Meng,X. Isci,C. Kephart,J. Zhang,L. Bouillet,E. Pendarakis,D.	in progress
	Fixed and market pricing for cloud services	Abhishek,V. Kash,I. Key,P.	2012
	Learning Curves and Stochastic Models for Pricing and Provisioning Cloud Computing Services	Gera,A. Xia,C.H.	2011
	Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free	Durkee,D.	2010
	A View of Cloud Computing	Armbrust,M. Fox,A. Friffith,R. Joseph,A.D. Katz,R. Konwinskii,A. Lee,G. Patterson,D. Rabkin,A. Stoica,I. Zaharia,M.	2010

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