An Efficient Technique for Virtual Machine Clustering and Communications Using Task-Based Scheduling in Cloud Computing

Table 1

VM parameters.

VM parameters	Description
Migration algorithm (capability)	0: original precopy
	1: CPU-based halting
	2: delta-based compression
	3: data-based compression
	4: postcopy
Workload type	0: synthetic-based workload
	1: idle-based workload
VM size	Size of VM at data center
Page dirty rate	Total number of modified pages in the VM
Working set size	The size of dirty pages
Page transfer rate	VM migration rate from one cluster to another cluster
CPU utilization of VM	Physical CPU utilization based on VM
Network utilization of VM	Bandwidth utilization of the VM
CPU utilization on host	Destination of VM clusters’ CPU utilization
Memory utilization on host	Destination of VM clusters’ memory utilization
IO utilization on host	Destination of VM clusters’ IO utilization