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vPALs: Towards Verified Performance-aware Learning System For Resource Management
Guoliang He, Gingfung Yeung, Sheriffo Ceesay +1
Accurately predicting task performance at runtime in a cluster is advantageous for a resource management system to determine whether a task should be migrated due to performance de…
A Risk-taking Broker Model to Optimise User Requests placement on On-demand and Contract VMs
Chalee Boonprasop, Yuhui Lin, Adam Barker
Cloud providers offer end-users various pricing schemes to allow them to tailor VMs to their needs, e.g., a pay-as-you-go billing scheme, called \textit{on-demand}, and a discounte…
Energy Aware Routing with Computational Offloading for Wireless Sensor Networks
Adam Barker, Martin Swany
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are characterized by a network of small, battery powered devices, operating remotely with no pre-existing infrastructure. The unique structure of WSN…
Benchmarking and Performance Modelling of MapReduce Communication Pattern
Sheriffo Ceesay, Adam Barker, Yuhui Lin
Understanding and predicting the performance of big data applications running in the cloud or on-premises could help minimise the overall cost of operations and provide opportuniti…
Cloud Futurology
Blesson Varghese, Philipp Leitner, Suprio Ray +9
The Cloud has become integral to most Internet-based applications and user gadgets. This article provides a brief history of the Cloud and presents a researcher's view of the prosp…
An Academic's Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
Adam Barker
How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.