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Spot Transit: Cheaper Internet Transit for Elastic Traffic
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
We advocate to create a \emph{spot} Internet transit market, where transit is sold using the under-utilized backbone capacity at a lower price. The providers can improve profit by…
Dominant Resource Fairness in Cloud Computing Systems with Heterogeneous Servers
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
We study the multi-resource allocation problem in cloud computing systems where the resource pool is constructed from a large number of heterogeneous servers, representing differen…
RepFlow: Minimizing Flow Completion Times with Replicated Flows in Data Centers
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
Short TCP flows that are critical for many interactive applications in data centers are plagued by large flows and head-of-line blocking in switches. Hash-based load balancing sche…
Reducing Electricity Demand Charge for Data Centers with Partial Execution
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
Data centers consume a large amount of energy and incur substantial electricity cost. In this paper, we study the familiar problem of reducing data center energy cost with two new…
To Reserve or Not to Reserve: Optimal Online Multi-Instance Acquisition in IaaS Clouds
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds offer diverse instance purchasing options. A user can either run instances on demand and pay only for what it uses, or it can prepay to re…