Wang, Shuang; Li, Xiaoping; Sheng, Quan Z.; Ruiz García, Rubén; Zhang, Jinquan; Beheshti, Amin(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-11-01)
[EN] In cloud computing, service providers rent heterogeneous servers from cloud providers, i.e., Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), to meet requests of consumers. The heterogeneity of servers and impatience of consumers ...
Wang, Shuang; Li, Xiaoping; Ruiz García, Rubén(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-04-01)
[EN] In this article, we consider the problem of selecting appropriate heterogeneous servers in cloud centers for stochastically arriving requests in order to obtain an optimal tradeoff between the expected response time ...