Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

Accurate power characterization is important in computing platforms for several reasons
ranging from poweraware adaptation to power provisioning. Power characterization is …

Due to the increasing demand of cloud resources, the ever-increasing number and scale of
cloud data centers make their massive power consumption a prominent issue today …

This paper explores the feasibility of and challenges in developing methods for black-box
monitoring of the power usage of a virtual machine (VM) at run-time, on shared virtualized …

Component based software development is prone to unexpected interaction faults. The goal
is to test as many-potential interactions as is feasible within time and budget constraints …

Power estimation of software processes provides critical indicators to drive scheduling or
power capping heuristics. State-of-the-art solutions can perform coarse-grained power …

Application performance has been and remains one of top five concerns since the inception
of cloud computing. A primary determinant of application performance is multi-tenancy or …

Energy consumption has emerged as a first class computing resource for both server
systems and personal computing devices. The growing importance of energy has led to …

Data centers are large-scale, energy-hungry infrastructure serving the increasing
computational demands as the world is becoming more connected in smart cities. The …