Photo by Lasia Kretzel. Shikaresh Majumdar with two grad students, Norman Lim and Trevor Gelowsky.
Carleton researchers are on cloud nine these days. The University just opened the Huawei-TELUS Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services.
Cloud computing allows users to acquire resources on demand from a service provider and store data on the service provider’s system rather than hosting this information on their own computers.
Located in Carleton’s new engineering building, the centre will be a venue for performing cutting-edge research in cloud computing. Students, faculty and industry will research real-world problems associated with enterprise clouds including management of computing, on demand storage and network resources, data-centre networking, scalability, business continuity, and security.
Two grad students will work with Shikharesh Majumdar, professor of systems and computer engineering, on two research projects on resource management in clouds that give rise to high system performance while conserving power.
Norman Lim, a PhD student who will be working on the projects says: “It is a great opportunity for me and Carleton University to work on these projects with two innovative companies such as Huawei and TELUS. It is exciting to know that the results of the research that we will be conducting may one day be implemented in real-world products and services.”
An effective management of resources on a cloud is crucial for achieving user satisfaction as well as a high revenue for the cloud service provider. Existing research on cloud resource management has focused mostly on workloads characterized by requests that require a best effort service. This project will consider a workload that also includes requests that are associated with service level agreements.
The first project will focus on achieving an end-to-end service level agreement for requests running on a cloud whereas the second project concerns resource co-allocation and energy management.
“Our research on these issues will lead to solutions that are not only expected to advance the state of the art but will also lead to effective solutions that are of interest to cloud system builders and users,” says Prof. Majumdar.
Several other research projects also involve grad students. Professor Changcheng Huang will lead a project on traffic control for data-centre networks; Professor Yvan Labiche and students will research intrusion detection for clouds; Professor Samuel Ajila will lead a team working on virtual machine migration within the cloud; Professor Winnie Ye will lead a project exploring how photonic cross connections can be used to optimize clouds; and a team of four professors and graduate students led by Professor Ioannis Lambadaris will investigate effective techniques for service level agreement based resource allocation.
Friday, January 20, 2012 in Grad Student Research, News
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