CloudAQUA: An Analytic Research on Quantifying Availability (AQUA) for Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation


CloudAqua Publications

  • Du, A. Y., Das, S., Yang, Z., Qiao, C. and Ramesh, R., "Predicting Transient Downtime in Virtual Server Systems: An Efficient Sample Path Randomization Approach" forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • Yang, Z., Liu, L., Qiao, C. , Das, S., Ramesh, R., Du, A.Y.,"Availability-aware Energy-efficient Virtual Machine Placement Algorithm", International Coference on Communications (ICC 2015),London,June 2015.
  • Yuan, S. Das, S., Du, A. Y., Ramesh, R., Yang, Z. and Qiao, C., "Availability-aware Resource Provisioning, Pricing, and Allocation Adjustment in the Cloud" INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2014), San Francisco, CA, November 2014.
  • Yuan, S. Das, S., Du, A. Y., Ramesh, R. and Qiao, C., "Cloud Resource Provisioning and Contract Adjustment in the Backdrop of SLA Violation Risk Mitigation" INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2013), Minneapolis, MN, October 2013.
  • Du, A. Y., Das, S., Qiao, C., Ramesh, R. and Yang, Z., "Downtime Predictions for Virtual Servers: A Study under Two Check-pointing Scenarios", INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2012), Phoenix, AZ., November 2012.
  • Du, A. Y., Das, S., Jie Hu, Chunming Qiao, Ramesh, R. and Zhouhan Yang, "Reliability in Cloud Computing: Downtime Predictions for Virtual Servers", Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Shanghai, China, December 2011.

Cloud Metrics Publications

  • F. Wang, G. von Laszewski, G. C. Fox, T. R. Furlani, R. L. DeLeon, and S. M. Gallo, "Towards a scientific impact measuring framework for large computing facilities - a case study on xsede," in Proceedings of the 2014 annual conference on extreme science and engineering discovery environment, New York, NY, USA, 2014, p. 25:1-25:8.
  • G. von Laszewski, H. Lee, J. Diaz, F. Wang, K. Tanaka, S. Karavinkoppa, G. Fox, and T. Furlani, "Design of an Accounting and Metric-based Cloud-shifting and Cloud-seeding Framework for Federated Clouds and Bare-metal Environments," in Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on cloud services, federation, and the 8th open cirrus summit, New York, NY, USA, 2012, pp. 25-32.

Related Publications

  • Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., "Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms," forthcoming in Information Systems Research.
  • Du, A.Y., Das, S. and Ramesh, R., "Efficient Risk Hedging by Dynamic Forward Pricing: A Study in Cloud Computing," INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 625 - 642, Fall 2013.
  • Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., "Risk Hedging in Storage Grid Markets: Do Options Add Value to Forwards?" ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2011.
  • Das, S., Du, A.Y., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., "Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids," Information Systems Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 756 - 773, December 2011.
  • Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., "Topographically Discounted Internet Infrastructure Resources: A Panel Study and Econometric Analysis," Information Technology and Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 135 - 146, June 2008.
  • Du, A.Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D.., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., "Capacity Provision Networks: Foundations of Markets for Sharable Resources in Distributed Computational Economies," Information Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.144 - 160, 2008.
  • Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., "Microproducts in a Digital Economy: Trading Small, Gaining Large," International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 9-30, 2004.
  • Geng, X., Gopal, R. D.., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., "Scaling Web Services with Capacity Provision Networks," Research Paper in IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 64-72, Nov. 2003.
  • Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., "Trading Caches: Capacity Provision Networks," IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 30-36, July/Aug, 2003.