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Table 7 Evaluation of Statistical Methods for Cloud Data Center Resource Management

From: A systematic review on effective energy utilization management strategies in cloud data centers

Author/ Year

Algorithm/Method

Data set/ Workload

Tools/ Experiment Environment

Objective

Performance Metrics/ Pros

Limitations

Z. Cao et al. [82], 2012

EV_MCE

PlanetLab

CloudSim

Host Overload Detection, VM Selection, DVMC, IaaS

Energy Consumption, QoS, SLAV, VM Migrations, SLATAH

Little worse than previous work for EC, simulation, required real infrastructure

F. Farahnakian et al. [83], 2013

LiRCUP

PlanetLab

CloudSim

Detection of Overloaded and Underloaded PM, Utilization Prediction

Energy Consumption, SLA Violation, power cost, CPU usage prediction

Simulation, Prediction utilization is approximated as a function

A. Nadjar et al. [84], 2015

ARIMA

MSV_ML

PlanetLab

CloudSim

Dynamic Consolidation of VM, IaaS

SLA, Energy Savings, Migration count, performance, predicting resource usage, number of active hosts

Required real infrastructure, less accuracy in predicting VM and host resource requirements in the near future

X. Ruan et al. [85], 2015

PPRGear

PlanetLab

CloudSim

VM Allocation, VM Migration

Host Utilization, Energy Consumption, SLA, Shutdown times, migration times

Performance degradation, required primitive characteristics of host computers, heavy workload

A. Abdelsamea et al. [86], 2017

MRHOD

HLRHOD

PlanetLab

CloudSim

PM Overload and Underload Detection, VMC, Better predictions of host overloading

Migration of VM, Energy Consumption, SLA Violation

Complex, required real cloud, less host utilization

M A Khoshkholghi et al. [87], 2017

PCM (IWLR,V-VMS,BRB,MRUHD)

PlanetLab

CloudSim

Utilization Prediction, VM Consolidation, workload-independent

Energy Utilization, VM Relocation, SLAV, heterogeneous physical servers, IaaS environment

N/W topology required, performance aware strategy, only CPU usage considered.

Hemavathy et al. [88] (2019)

PTASC model, Extended Multiple Linear Regression (EMLR)

Own data

CloudSim

workload prediction, load balancing, server consolidation, VM scheduling, VMP, resource provisioning,

energy efficiency, cost reduction, Response time

Required numeric and local architecture into consideration, statistical learning method, intrusion detection, and prevention systems needed.

Lianpeng et al. [89] (2019)

RobustSLR

PlanetLab and random workload

CloudSim simulator

VM consolidation, host overload, underload detection

Energy consumption, SLAV, SLATAH, PDM, Average SLAV, VM migration, host shutdown

Required RAM and N/W usage to improve energy efficiency and SLAV

X. Liu et al. [50], 2020

DCMMT

PlanetLab

CloudSim

VM Migration Thrashing, Dynamic Consolidation

VM Migration, SLA Violation, Thrashing Index, SLATAH, PDM

Real-world cloud platform needed, required workload statistical properties

Maryam C.-Samani et al. [90] (2020)

PCVM.ARIMA

PlanetLab

CloudSim

DCVM, Resource utilization, VM Placement

Energy Consumption, Migration of VM, SLA Violation, hosts shutdown

Memory and disk utilization are required for future prediction, required reduction in CO2 emission, failure tolerance, and security.