Ant Colony Algorithm for Building of Virtual Machine Disk Images Within Cloud Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 701-706
Author(s):  
Irina Bolodurina ◽  
Leonid Legashev ◽  
Petr Polezhaev ◽  
Alexander Shukhman ◽  
Yuri Ushakov
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Cloud Systems

scholarly journals Energy-Saving Virtual Machine Placement Method for User Experience in Cloud Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanchen Pang ◽  
Kexiang Xu ◽  
Shudong Wang ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Shuyu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Local Optimum ◽  
Placement Method

Green computing focuses on the energy consumption to minimize costs and adverse environmental impacts in data centers. Improving the utilization of host computers is one of the main green cloud computing strategies to reduce energy consumption, but the high utilization of the host CPU can affect user experience, reduce the quality of service, and even lead to service-level agreement (SLA) violations. In addition, the ant colony algorithm performs well in finding suitable computing resources in unknown networks. In this paper, an energy-saving virtual machine placement method (UE-ACO) is proposed based on the improved ant colony algorithm to reduce the energy consumption and satisfy users’ experience, which achieves the balance between energy consumption and user experience in data centers. We improve the pheromone and heuristic factors of the traditional ant colony algorithm, which can guarantee that the improved algorithm can jump out of the local optimum and enter the global optimal, avoiding the premature maturity of the algorithm. Experimental results show that compared to the traditional ant colony algorithm, min-min algorithm, and round-robin algorithm, the proposed algorithm UE-ACO can save up to 20%, 24%, and 30% of energy consumption while satisfying user experience.

scholarly journals Server Consolidation Based on Culture Multiple-Ant-Colony Algorithm in Cloud Computing

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan ◽  
Sun
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Virtual Machine Migration ◽  
Server Consolidation ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

High-energy consumption in data centers has become a critical issue. The dynamic server consolidation has significant effects on saving energy of a data center. An effective way to consolidate virtual machines is to migrate virtual machines in real time so that some light load physical machines can be turned off or switched to low-power mode. The present challenge is to reduce the energy consumption of cloud data centers. In this paper, for the first time, a server consolidation algorithm based on the culture multiple-ant-colony algorithm was proposed for dynamic execution of virtual machine migration, thus reducing the energy consumption of cloud data centers. The server consolidation algorithm based on the culture multiple-ant-colony algorithm (CMACA) finds an approximate optimal solution through a specific target function. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm not only reduces the energy consumption but also reduces the number of virtual machine migration.

scholarly journals Multi-Population Ant Colony Algorithm for Virtual Machine Deployment

IEEE Access ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 27014-27022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuemei Sun ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Maode Ma ◽  
Hua Su
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Ant Colony
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