title: Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform
creator: Al-Qudah, Zakaria
creator: Alzoubi, Hussein A.
creator: Allman, Mark
creator: Rabinovich, Michael
creator: Liberatore, Vincenzo
description: Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each customer, dynamic hosting maintains a variable number of application instances to satisfy current demand. While existing research in this area has mostly focused on the algorithms that decide on the number and location of application instances, we address the problem of efficient enactment of these decisions once they are made. We propose a new approach to application placement and experimentally show that it dramatically reduces the cost of application placement, which in turn improves the end-to-end agility of the hosting platform in reacting to demand changes.
date: 2009-04
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/1/p281.pdf
format: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/2/WWW09-idle-apps.ppt
identifier: Al-Qudah, Zakaria <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Al-Qudah=3AZakaria=3A=3A.html> and Alzoubi, Hussein A. <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Alzoubi=3AHussein_A=2E=3A=3A.html> and Allman, Mark <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Allman=3AMark=3A=3A.html> and Rabinovich, Michael <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Rabinovich=3AMichael=3A=3A.html> and Liberatore, Vincenzo <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Liberatore=3AVincenzo=3A=3A.html> (2009) Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/