Paper List on Data Center System Research

(2011.1-2013.7)

CGCL Cloud Computing Group

(The updated list can be downloaded from:

http://grid.hust.edu.cn/wusong)

Resource Management & Scheduling (85)

VM Placement (7)

ICDCS11_ Guaranteeing High Availability Goals for Virtual Machine Placement

ICDCS12_ VirtualKnotter: Online Virtual Machine Shuffling for Congestion Resolving in Virtualized

Datacenter

Middleware12_Enabling efficient placement of virtual infrastructures in the cloud

INFOCOM13_ Shadow-Routing Based Dynamic Algorithms for Virtual Machine Placement in a

Network Cloud

MASCOTS12_A Scalable Algorithm for Placement of Virtual Clusters in Large Data Centers

INFOCOM13_Almost Optimal Virtual Machine Placement for Traffic Intense Data Centers

INFOCOM12_Joint VM placement and routing for data center traffic engineering

Deployment (4)

HPDC11_ Going Back and Forth : Efficient Multideployment and Multisnapshotting on Clouds

CoNEXT12_ Cloud-based Social Application Deployment using Local Processing and Global

Distribution

INFOCOM13_PACE: Policy-Aware Application Cloud Embedding

SOCC12_Chronos : Predictable Low Latency for Data Center Applications

Service Placement (1)

ICDCS12_ Dynamic Service Placement in Geographically Distributed Clouds

Load Balancing (3)

INFOCOM12_Stochastic models of load balancing and scheduling in cloud computing clusters

INFOCOM13_ Schedule First, Manage Later: Network-aware Load Balancing

IPDPS13_Profit Aware Load Balancing for Distributed Cloud Data Centers

Allocation (36)

MASCOTS12_Squeezing out the Cloud via Profit-Maximizing Resource Allocation Policies

SOCC12_ Generalizing Resource Allocation for the Cloud

EuroSys13_ hClock: Hierarchical QoS for Packet Scheduling in a Hypervisor

EuroSys11_Kaleidoscope: Cloud Micro-Elasticity via VM State Coloring

INFOCOM12_ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in cloud for mobile

code offloading

SC11_Flexible resource allocation for reliable virtual cluster computing systems

IPDPS12_Virtual Machine Resource Allocation for Service Hosting on Heterogeneous Distributed

Platforms

NSDI11_Dominant Resource Fairness : Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types Maps Reduces

NSDI11_Mesos : A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center

ATC12_TROPIC : Transactional Resource Orchestration Platform In the Cloud

SIGMETRICS13_ Defragmenting the Cloud Using Demand-based Resource Allocation

SOCC11_Declarative Automated Cloud Resource Orchestration

SOCC12_Bridging the tenant-provider gap in cloud services

SOCC12_Generalized resource allocation for the cloud

INFOCOM11_Limits of Energy Saving for the Allocation of Data Center Resources to Networked

Applications

INFOCOM13_A Cooperative Game Based Allocation for Sharing Data Center Networks

EuroSys13_Choosy: Max-Min Fair Sharing for Datacenter Jobs with Constraints

IPDPS13_Optimizing Resource allocation while handling SLA violations in Cloud Computing

platforms

ICNP12_ Towards Bandwidth Guarantee in Multi-tenancy Cloud Computing Networks

VEE11_Dolly: virtualization-driven database provisioning for the cloud

ICDCS13_HARMONY: Dynamic Heterogeneity − Aware Resource Provisioning in the Cloud

ICDCS12_ v-Bundle: Flexible Group Resource Offerings in Clouds

SC12_Cost- and Deadline-Constrained Provisioning for Scientific Workflow Ensembles in IaaS

Clouds

INFOCOM11_Managing Cost , Performance , and Reliability Tradeoffs for Energy-Aware Server

Provisioning

INFOCOM13_Coordinated Resource Provisioning and Maintenance Scheduling in Cloud Data

Centers

IPDPS13_V-Cache: Towards Flexible Resource Provisioning for Multi-tier Applications in IaaS

Clouds

HPDC12_ Locality-aware Dynamic VM Reconfiguration on MapReduce Clouds

ASPLOS12_DejaVu: Accelerating Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments

SC11_Auto-scaling to minimize cost and meet application deadlines in cloud workflows

MASCOTS12_ Coordinated VM Resizing and Server Tuning: Throughput, Power Efficiency and

Scalability

MASCOTS11_ CosMig: Modeling the Impact of Reconfiguration in a Cloud

MASCOTS11_ A Model-free Learning Approach for Coordinated Configuration of Virtual Machines

and Appliances

MASCOTS11_ A Distributed Self-Learning Approach for Elastic Provisioning of Virtualized Cloud

Resources

SOCC11_CloudScale: Elastic Resource Scaling for Multi-Tenant Cloud Systems

INFOCOM12_Quality-assured cloud bandwidth auto-scaling for video-on-demand applications

INFOCOM13_ Characterizing the Impact of the Workload on the Value of Dynamic Resizing in

Data Centers

Consolidation (3)

INFOCOM11_Consolidating Virtual Machines with Dynamic Bandwidth Demand in Data Centers

SIGMETRICS13_A large-scale service system with packing constraints: minimizing the number of

occupied servers

INFOCOM12_Improving consolidation of virtual machines with risk-aware bandwidth

oversubscription in compute clouds

Reservation (1)

SIGCOMM12_The Only Constant is Change : Incorporating Time-Varying Network Reservations in

Data Centers

Storage Migration (6)

HPDC12_ Towards Efficient Live Migration of I/O Intensive Workloads: A Transparent Storage

Transfer Proposal

ATC11_The Design and Evolution of Live Storage Migration in VMware ESX

ATC11_Online migration for geo-distributed storage systems

MASCOTS11_ Activity Based Sector Synchronisation: Efficient Transfer of Disk-State For WAN Live

Migration

VEE13_Optimizing Virtual Machine Live Storage Migration in Heterogeneous Storage

Environment

VEE11_Workload-Aware Live Storage Migration for Clouds

VM Migration (14)

HPDC11_Performance and energy modeling for live migration of virtual machines

SC11_Optimized pre-copy live migration for memory intensive applications

IPDPS11_Shared Resource Monitoring and Throughput Optimization in Cloud-Computing

Datacenters

INFOCOM12_Bargaining towards maximized resource utilization in video streaming datacenters

INFOCOM11_Application-aware Virtual Machine Migration in Data Centers

VEE13_Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machines

VEE13_Introspection-based Memory De-duplication and Migration

VEE13_VMScatter: Migrate Virtual Machines to Many Hosts

VEE13_Parallelizing Live Migration of Virtual Machines

VEE12_CompSC: Live Migration with Pass-through Devices

VEE11_ Evaluation of Delta Compression techniques for Efficient Live Migration of Large Virtual

Machines

VEE11_CloudNet: Dynamic Pooling of Cloud Resources by Live WAN Migration of Virtual

Machines

HPDC11_ Live gang migration of virtual machines

HPDC11_ VMFlock : Virtual Machine Co-Migration for the Cloud

VM Image Management (5)

CoNEXT12_VMTorrent: Scalable P2P Virtual Machine Streaming

VEE11_Rethink the Virtual Machine Template

ICDCS13_Content-Based Scheduling of Virtual Machines ( VMs ) in the Cloud

INFOCOM12_VDN: Virtual machine image distribution network for cloud data centers

Middleware11_Live Deduplication Storage of Virtual Machine Images in an Open-Source Cloud

Job Scheduling (5)

ISCA13_ Whare-Map: Heterogeneity in "Homogeneous" Warehouse-Scale Computers

ICDCS12_ Provably-Efficient Job Scheduling for Energy and Fairness in Geographically Distributed

Data Centers

ASPLOS13_Paragon : QoS-Aware Scheduling for Heterogeneous Datacenters

SOCC12_alsched : Algebraic Scheduling of Mixed Workloads in Heterogeneous Clouds

INFOCOM13_Scheduling Jobs with Unknown Duration in Clouds

Economics (36)

SP costs (15)

ICDCS12_Dynamic Control of Electricity Cost with Power Demand Smoothing and Peak Shaving

for Distributed Internet Data Centers

ICDCS11_ A Cost-Aware Elasticity Provisioning System for the Cloud

ICDCS12_ Provably-Efficient Job Scheduling for Energy and Fairness in Geographically Distributed

Data Centers

ICDCS12_ Intelligent Placement of Datacenters for Internet Services

INFOCOM11_Limits of Energy Saving for the Allocation of Data Center Resources to Networked

Applications

INFOCOM11_Managing Cost , Performance , and Reliability Tradeoffs for Energy-Aware Server

Provisioning

ICDCS13_SmartDPSS : Cost-Minimizing Multi-source Power Supply for Datacenters with Arbitrary

Demand

ICDCS12_ eTransform: Transforming Enterprise Data Centers by Automated Consolidation

MM12_Jetway : Minimizing Costs on Inter-Datacenter Video Traffic

SC11_Reducing electricity cost through virtual machine placement in high performance

computing clouds

HPCA13_Cost Effective Data Center Servers

SIGMETRICS11_ Optimal Power Cost Management Using Stored Energy in Data Centers

SIGMETRICS11_ Greening Geographical Load Balancing

INFOCOM12_RED-BL: Energy solution for loading data centers

INFOCOM13_Data Center Energy Cost Minimization : a Spatio-Temporal Scheduling Approach

SP Profits (5)

INFOCOM13_Profit-Maximizing Virtual Machine Trading in a Federation of Selfish Clouds

IPDPS13_Profit Aware Load Balancing for Distributed Cloud Data Centers

HPDC11_ Tradeoffs between Profit and Customer Satisfaction for Service Provisioning in the

Cloud

ICDCS13_Datacenters as Controllable Load Resources in the Electricity Market

INFOCOM13_On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds

User Costs (9)

ICDCS13_Dynamic Cloud Resource Reservation via Cloud Brokerage

NSDI12_Orchestrating the Deployment of Computations in the Cloud with Conductor

MASCOTS11_Cost Minimization for Provisioning Virtual Servers in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

SOCC11_To Cloud Or Not To Cloud ? Musings On Costs and Viability

SOCC12_More for Your Money : Exploiting Performance Heterogeneity in Public Clouds

INFOCOM12_Optimal bidding in spot instance market

IPDPS12_Optimal Resource Rental Planning for Elastic Applications in Cloud Market

ICNP12_ Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds

INFOCOM12_Measurement and Utilization of Customer-Provided Resources for Cloud Computing

Pricing (7)

ICDCS13_Present or Future : Optimal Pricing for Spot Instances

ICDCS12_ Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation with Hybrid Cloud Pricing

Middleware12_CloudPack: Exploiting Workload Flexibility Through Rational Pricing

HotNets11_The Price Is Right: Towards Location-Independent Costs in Datacenters

SIGMETRICS12_ Pricing cloud bandwidth reservations under demand uncertainty

INFOCOM12_A Theory of Cloud Bandwidth Pricing for Video-on-Demand Providers

INFOCOM13_Resource Pricing Game in Geo-distributed Clouds

Power (35)

Reduce Environmental Impact (2)

ASPLOS12_Totally Green: Evaluating and Designing Servers for Lifecycle Environmental Impact

SIGCOMM12_It’s not easy being green

Power Management (4)

ATC11_Power Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers

ISCA13_ Agile, efficient virtualization power management with low-latency server power states

ISCA13_Virtualizing Power Distribution in Datacenters

ASPLOS11_ Blink: Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power

Renewable Energy (10)

ASPLOS13_Parasol and GreenSwitch : Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy

HPCA13_Enabling Distributed Generation Powered Sustainable High-Performance Data Center

Middleware11_GreenWare: Greening Cloud-Scale Data Centers to Maximize the Use of

Renewable Energy

MASCOTS12_ Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters

SC11_GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters

SIGMETRICS12_Renewable and cooling aware workload management for sustainable data

centers

SIGMETRICS11_ Greening Geographical Load Balancing

INFOCOM13_ The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind : Analysis of Powering Internet Data Centers

with Wind Energy

ISCA12_ iSwitch: coordinating and optimizing renewable energy powered server clusters

EuroSys12_ GreenHadoop: leveraging green energy in data-processing frameworks

Server Design (1)

SC11_ High-efficiency server design

Energy Saving (8)

HPDC11_Performance and energy modeling for live migration of virtual machines

INFOCOM11_Limits of Energy Saving for the Allocation of Data Center Resources to Networked

Applications

INFOCOM11_Managing Cost , Performance , and Reliability Tradeoffs for Energy-Aware Server

Provisioning

INFOCOM12_CARPO : Correlation-Aware Power Optimization in Data Center Networks

INFOCOM12_Data Centers Power Reduction: A two Time Scale Approach for Delay Tolerant

Workloads

INFOCOM11_Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers

INFOCOM13_On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds

Energy Efficiency (3)

HPCA13_Navigating Heterogeneous Processors with Market Mechanisms

IPDPS13_Joint Host-Network Optimization for Energy-Efficient Data Center Networking

INFOCOM12_Geographic Trough Filling for Internet Datacenters

Thermal Management & Cooling (4)

ISCA11_From Microns-to-Megawatts: Modeling the Data Center Scale Effects of Targeted

Superlattice Thermal Management

SC12_T: a data-centric cooling energy costs reduction approach for big data analytics cloud

SIGMETRICS12_Temperature Management in Data Centers: Why Some ( Might ) Like It Hot

SIGMETRICS12_Renewable and cooling aware workload management for sustainable data

centers

Energy Storage (4)

ISCA11_Benefits and Limitations of Tapping into Stored Energy For Datacenters

ASPLOS12_Leveraging stored energy for handling power emergencies in aggressively provisioned

datacenters

SIGMETRICS12_ Energy Storage in Datacenters: What , Where , and How much ?

ISCA12_ Managing Distributed UPS Energy for Effective Power Capping in Data Centers

Others (1)

NSDI13_Yank : Enabling Green Data Centers to Pull the Plug

Networking (60)

Flow Management (3)

ICDCS13_Longer is Better : Exploiting Path Diversity in Data Center Networks

SIGCOMM12_Finishing flows quickly with preemptive scheduling

SIGCOMM11_DevoFlow : Scaling Flow Management for High-Performance Networks

Traffic Management (3)

INFOCOM11_Mahout : Low-Overhead Datacenter Traffic Management using End-Host-Based

Elephant Detection

INFOCOM13_Intra-Data-Center Traffic Engineering with Ensemble Routing

INFOCOM11_A First Look at Inter-Data Center Traffic Characteristics via Yahoo ! Datasets

Routing (5)

ICDCS12_DARD: Distributed Adaptive Routing for Datacenter Networks

INFOCOM12_Joint VM placement and routing for data center traffic engineering

INFOCOM11_Routing-as-a-Service ( RaaS ): A Framework For Tenant-Directed Route Control in

Data Center

IPDPS13_Joint Host-Network Optimization for Energy-Efficient Data Center Networking

INFOCOM13_Joint Request Mapping and Response Routing for Geo-distributed Cloud Services

Network Sharing (3)

NSDI13_Chatty Tenants and the Cloud Network Sharing Problem

NSDI11_Sharing the Data Center Network

SIGCOMM12_FairCloud : Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing

Latency (4)

NSDI13_ Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud

NSDI12_Less is More : Trading a little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center

SIGCOMM12_DeTail : Reducing the Flow Completion Time Tail in Datacenter Networks

SIGMETRICS11_ Fine-Grained Latency and Loss Measurements in the Presence of Reordering

Network Architecture (7)

NSDI12_Jellyfish : Networking Data Centers Randomly

SIGCOMM11_NetLord : A Scalable Multi-Tenant Network Architecture for Virtualized Datacenters

ATC11_Taming the Flying Cable Monster: A Topology Design and Optimization Framework for

Data-Center Networks

CoNEXT12_PAST: Scalable Ethernet for Data Centers

SOCC11_Small-World Datacenters

INFOCOM11_BCN : Expansible Network Structures for Data Centers Using Hierarchical Compound

Graphs

ICNP11_ Building Mega Data Center From Heterogeneous Containers

Switching (5)

NSDI12_OSA : An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented

Flexibility

NSDI11_ServerSwitch: A Programmable and High Performance Platform for Data Center

Networks

HotNets12_Deconstructing datacenter packet transport

HotNets12_Hunting Mice with Microsecond Circuit Switches

SOCC11_Switching the Optical Divide : Fundamental Challenges for Hybrid Electrical / Optical

Datacenter Networks

Multicast (7)

INFOCOM12_Exploring Server Redundancy in Nonblocking Multicast Data

INFOCOM11_RDCM : Reliable Data Center Multicast

INFOCOM11_Exploring efficient and scalable multicast routing in future data center networks

INFOCOM13_Multicast Fat-tree Data Center Networks with Bounded Link Oversubscription

IPDPS13_Oversubscription Bounded Multicast Scheduling in Fat-tree Data Center Networks

IPDPS12_On Nonblocking Multirate Multicast Fat-tree Data Center Networks with Server

Redundancy

ICNP11_ Scalable Data Center Multicast Using Multi-class Bloom Filter

TCP Incast (1)

INFOCOM11_Modeling and Understanding TCP Incast in Data Center Networks

Fairness (1)

NSDI12_The TCP Outcast Problem : Exposing Unfairness in Data Center Networks

Protocol (8)

SIGCOMM12_Deadline-aware datacenter TCP (D2TCP)

SIGCOMM11_Better Never than Late : Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks

SIGCOMM11_Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP

CoNEXT12_Tuning ECN for Data Center Networks

SIGMETRICS11_ Analysis of DCTCP: Stability , Convergence , and Fairness

SOCC11_ALIAS : Scalable , Decentralized Label Assignment for Data Centers

INFOCOM13_Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers

ICNP12_ Airlift: Video Conferencing as a Cloud Service using Inter-Datacenter Networks

Congestion Control (3)

CoNEXT12_Datacast: A Scalable and Efficient Reliable Group Data Delivery Service for Data

Centers

INFOCOM12_Sliding Mode Congestion Control for Data Center Ethernet Networks

INFOCOM11_On Mitigating TCP Incast in Data Center Networks

Wireless (3)

SIGCOMM12_Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling : Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers

SIGCOMM11_Augmenting data center networks with multi-gigabit wireless links

INFOCOM11_Channel Allocation in Wireless Data Center Networks

Networking System (1)

SOCC11_CloudNaaS : A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications

Other Optimizations (6)

SOCC11_Opportunistic flooding to improve TCP transmit performance in virtualized clouds

SIGCOMM11_Inter-datacenter bulk transfers with netstitcher

SIGCOMM11_Towards Predictable Datacenter Networks

HotNets11_Bandwidth on demand for inter-data center communication

INFOCOM13_On the Impact of Packet Spraying in Data Center Networks

EuroSys12_Practical TDMA for Datacenter Ethernet

Fault Tolerance (13)

VEE11_ReHype: Enabling VM Survival Across Hypervisor Failures

VEE11_Fast and Correct Performance Recovery of Operating Systems Using a Virtual Machine

Monitor

VEE11_Fast Restore of Checkpointed Memory using Working Set Estimation

SIGCOMM12_NetPilot: Automating Datacenter Network Failure Mitigation

SIGCOMM12_Surviving Failures in Bandwidth-Constrained Datacenters

SIGCOMM11_Understanding Network Failures in Data Centers : Measurement , Analysis , and

Implications

SOCC11_PipeCloud: Using Causality to Overcome Speed-of-Light Delays in Cloud-Based Disaster

Recovery

VEE12_SecondSite: Disaster Tolerance as a Service

IPDPS12_Meteor Shower: A Reliable Stream Processing System for Commodity Data Centers

INFOCOM12_Experimental Performance Comparison of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols for

Data Centers

Checkpoint

ATC13_Optimizing VM Checkpointing for Restore Performance in VMware ESXi

VEE11_Fast and Space Efficient Virtual Machine Checkpointing

SC11_ BlobCR: Efficient Checkpoint-Restart for HPC Applications on IaaS Clouds using Virtual Disk

Image Snapshots

MapReduce (19)

Energy (2)

EuroSys12_ Energy efficiency for large-scale MapReduce workloads with significant interactive

analysis

EuroSys12_ GreenHadoop: leveraging green energy in data-processing frameworks

Scheduling (4)

HPDC13_ Interference and locality-aware task scheduling for MapReduce applications in virtual

clusters

MASCOTS12_Two Sides of a Coin: Optimizing the Schedule of MapReduce Jobs to Minimize Their

Makespan and Improve Cluster Performance

ICDCS13_HybridMR : A Hierarchical MapReduce Scheduler for Hybrid Data Centers

SIGMETRICS12_ Delay Tails in MapReduce Scheduling

Load Balancing (2)

SOCC12_Balancing Reducer Skew in MapReduce Workloads using Progressive Sampling

ATC13_PIKACHU : How to Rebalance Load in Optimizing MapReduce On Heterogeneous Clusters

Resource Management (2)

HPDC12_ CAM: A Topology Aware Minimum Cost Flow Based Resource Manager for MapReduce

Applications in the Cloud

SC11_Purlieus: locality-aware resource allocation for MapReduce in a cloud

Failure (1)

HPDC12_Understanding the Effects and Implications of Compute Node Related Failures in

Hadoop

GPU support (2)

HPDC12_Optimizing MapReduce for GPUs with Effective Shared Memory Usage

SC12_Accelerating MapReduce on a coupled CPU-GPU architecture

Optimizations (2)

ASPLOS12_Tarazu : Optimizing MapReduce On Heterogeneous Clusters

SC11_Hadoop acceleration through network levitated merge

Enhancement (4)

ATC11_In-situ MapReduce for Log Processing

SOCC12_ Sailfish: A Framework For Large Scale Data Processing

SOCC11_ Incoop: MapReduce for Incremental Computations

SOCC12_ Themis: An I/O Efficient MapReduce

HPC (3)

HPDC13_ A comparative study of high-performance computing on the cloud

SOCC12_Dual Stack Virtualization: Consolidating HPC and Commodity Applications in the Cloud

VEE13_A Lightweight VMM on Many core for High Performance Computing

Virtualization Optimization (51)

Memory

HPDC13_ kMemvisor: Flexible System Wide Memory Mirroring in Virtual Environments

HPDC12_ Singleton: System-wide Page Deduplication in Virtual Environments

ATC12_An Empirical Study of Memory Sharing in Virtual Machines

VEE13_Leveraging Phase Change Memory to Achieve Efficient Virtual Machine Execution

VEE11_ Selective Hardware/Software Memory Virtualization

EuroSys13_ Application Level Ballooning for Efficient Server Consolidation

ISCA13_ Improving virtualization in the presence of software managed translation lookaside

buffers

ISCA12_ Revisiting Hardware-Assisted Page Walks for Virtualized Systems

VEE11_Overdriver: Handling Memory Overload in an Oversubscribed Cloud

CPU Scheduling:

HPDC12_ Latency-aware Virtual Machine Scheduling via Differentiated-frequency CPU Slicing

HPDC12_Dynamic Adaptive Virtual Core Mapping to Improve Power, Energy, and Performance in

Multi-socket Multicores

HPDC11_Dynamic Adaptive Scheduling for Virtual Machines

HPDC11_Enhancement of Xen's Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads

ASPLOS13_Demand-Based Coordinated Scheduling for SMP VMs

HPCA13_Optimizing Virtual Machine Scheduling in NUMA Multicore Systems

EuroSys11_ Is Co-scheduling Too Expensive for SMP VMs?

ISCA11_ Virtualizing Performance Asymmetric Multi-core Systems

Cache

ASPLOS13_To Hardware Prefetch or Not to Prefetch? A Virtualized Environment Study & Core

Binding Approach

ASPLOS12_Region Scheduling: Efficiently Using the Cache Architectures via Page-level Affinity

HPCA13_RECAP: A region-based cure for the common cold (cache)

HPCA12_ Cache Restoration for Highly Partitioned Virtualized Systems

MASCOTS11_Estimating Application Cache Requirement for Provisioning Caches in Virtualized

Systems

SOCC11_ Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated

Virtual Machines

I/O optimization

ASPLOS12_ELI: Bare-metal Performance for I/O Virtualization

ATC13_Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture

ATC13_Efficient and Scalable Paravirtual I/O System

ATC13_vTurbo: Accelerating Virtual Machine I/O Processing Using Designated Turbo-Sliced Core

ATC11_vIC: Interrupt Coalescing for Virtual Machine Storage Device IO

ATC11_vIOMMU: Efficient IOMMU Emulation

VEE12_Enhancing TCP Throughput of Highly Available Virtual Machines via Speculative

Communication

SOCC12_vBalance: Using Interrupt Load Balance to Improve I/O Performance for SMP Virtual

Machines

ISCA13_ Secure I/O device sharing among virtual machines on multiple hosts

VEE12_Facilitating Inter-Application Interactions for OS-level Virtualization

Reduce Overhead

ATC12_Software Techniques for Avoiding Hardware Virtualization Exits

VEE11_Minimal-overhead Virtualization of a Large Scale Supercomputer

VMM Architecture

VEE13_A Lightweight VMM on Many core for High Performance Computing

SOCC12_Dual Stack Virtualization: Consolidating HPC and Commodity Applications in the Cloud

EuroSys12_ The Xen-Blanket: virtualize once, run everywhere

VEE12_DVM: Towards a Datacenter-Scale Virtual Machine

Others

VEE11_SymCall: Symbiotic Virtualization Through VMM-to-Guest Upcalls

FAST12_Adding Advanced Storage Controller Functionality via Low-Overhead Virtualization

FAST13_ Virtual Machine Workloads: The Case for New Benchmarks for NAS

VEE13_Using A Dual-VM Enabled External Shell for Guest-OS Introspection, Reconfiguration, and

Recovery

VEE13_Traveling Forward in Time to Newer Operating Systems using ShadowReboot

VEE13_Towards Verifiable Resource Accounting for Outsourced Computation

VEE13_Preemptable Ticket Spinlocks: Improving Consolidated Performance in the Cloud

VEE13_Modeling Virtualized Applications using Machine Learning Techniques

VEE12_Virtualization Challenges: A View from Server Consolidation Perspective

VEE11_Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines

MASCOTS11_Workload Characterization at the Virtualization Layer

VEE11_Patch Auditing in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds

QoS (4)

ASPLOS13_ReQoS: Reactive Static/Dynamic Compilation for QoS in Warehouse Scale Computers

ISCA13_ Bubble-Flux: Precise Online QoS Management for Increased Utilization in Warehouse

Scale Computers

ASPLOS13_Paragon : QoS-Aware Scheduling for Heterogeneous Datacenters

ATC12_Demand Based Hierarchical QoS Using Storage Resource Pools

Security (9)

ASPLOS12_ Architectural Support for Hypervisor-Secure Virtualization

SOSP11_Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor

VEE11_Fine-Grained User-Space Security Through Virtualization

EuroSys12_Isolating Commodity Hosted Hypervisors with HyperLock

EuroSys12_ Delusional boot: securing hypervisors without massive re-engineering

ICDCS13_Storing Shared Data on the Cloud via Security-Mediator (数据安全，云。不知道算不算

数据中心)

FAST13_Shroud : Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center

SOSP11_CloudVisor: Retrofitting Protection of Virtual Machines in Multi-tenant Cloud with

Nested Virtualization

ICNP12_ CloudWatcher: Network Security Monitoring Using OpenFlow in Dynamic

Cloud Networks

Storage (8)

OSDI12_Flat Datacenter Storage

LISA12_IDO: Intelligent Data Outsourcing with Improved RAID Reconstruction Performance in

Large-Scale Data Centers

SOCC11_Pesto: Online Storage Performance Management in Virtualized Datacenters

SOCC12_Romano: Autonomous Storage Management using Performance Prediction in

Multi-Tenant Datacenters

EuroSys11_Sierra: Practical Power-proportionality for Data Center Storage

MASCOTS12_Cooperative Storage-Level De-Duplication for I/O Reduction in Virtualized Data

Centers

FAST12_Understanding Performance Implications of Nested File Systems in a Virtualized

Environment

EuroSys13_MDCC : Multi-Data Center Consistency

Performance Isolation (7)

ATC13_DeepDive: Transparently Identifying and Managing Performance Interference in

Virtualized Environments

SOCC11_ Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated

Virtual Machines

HPDC13_VGRIS: Virtualized GPU Resource Isolation and Scheduling in Cloud Gaming

INFOCOM12_SageShift: Managing SLAs for highly consolidated cloud

SC12_Measuring interference between live datacenter applications

SC11_TRACON: Interference-Aware Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Virtualized

Environments

ISCA11_The impact of memory subsystem resource sharing on datacenter applications

MCC (3)

EuroSys11_CloneCloud: Elastic Execution between Mobile Device and Cloud

INFOCOM12_ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in cloud for mobile

code offloading

INFOCOM13_ eTime: Energy-Efficient Transmission between Cloud and Mobile Devices

Monitoring & diagnostics (7)

Datacenter Layer

ICDCS13_Volley: Violation Likelihood Based State Monitoring for Dataceners

ICDCS13_Diagnosing Data Center Behavior Flow by Flow

ICDCS12_ Towards Optimal Sensor Placement for Hot Server Detection in Data Centers

Application Layer

ICDCS13_FChain : Toward Black-box Online Fault Localization for Cloud Systems

ICDCS13——Detecting Transient Bottlenecks in n-Tier Applications through Fine-Grained Analysis

NSDI11_Profiling Network Performance for Multi-Tier Data Center Applications

Middleware12_VScope: Middleware for Troubleshooting Time-Sensitive Data Center Applications

Other optimizations (3)

ASPLOS12_Iterative optimization for the data center

SOCC11_Improving Per-Node Efficiency in the Datacenter with New OS Abstractions

ISCA12_ Scale-Out Processors

Benchmark (1)

ASPLOS12_Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Scale-out Workloads on Modern Hardware

Rule Management (1)

NSDI13_Scalable Rule Management for Data Centers

Cache Cluster (1)

ICDCS13_Proteus : Power Proportional Memory Cache Cluster in Data Centers (缓存系统)

Prediction (2)

SC12_ Host load prediction in a Google compute cloud with a Bayesian model

Middleware11_Predico: A System for What-if Analysis in Complex Data Center Applications

Conference list

ICDCS：2013，2012，2011

HPDC：2013，2012，2011

ASPLOS：2013, 2012, 2011

FAST: 2013, 2012, 2011

HPCA: 2013, 2012, 2011

MM: 2012, 2011

NSDI：2013，2012，2011

OSDI/SOSP: 2012, 2011

SIGCOMM: 2012, 2011

USENIX ATC: 2013, 2012，2011

Middleware: 2012, 2011

CoNEXT: 2012, 2011

HotNets：2012，2011

LISA: 2012, 2011

INFOCOM：2013，2012，2011

MASCOTS: 2012, 2011

SC: 2012，2011

SIGMETRICS: 2013, 2012, 2011

SOCC：2012，2011

VEE：2013，2012，2011

IPDPS: 2013，2012，2011

ICNP: 2012, 2011

EuroSys: 2013, 2012, 2011

ISCA：2013，2012，2011

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Prof. Song Wu for his advices. Thanks also to Like Zhou for his great effort.

The updated list can be downloaded from: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/wusong