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Table 1 Table of abbreviations used in this paper

From: A resource scheduling method for cloud data centers based on thermal management

abbreviation

Definition

VM

Virtual machine

VMC

Virtual machine consolidation

TM-VMC

A Thermal Management-based Virtual Machine Consolidation Method

VMP

Virtual machine placement

MMR

A virtual machine selection policy based on maximum migrated memory

TU

An overload detection strategy based on host temperature and utilization

HOAVG

an underload host detection method based on median average utilization

SLA

Service Level Agreement

CRAC

Computer Room Air Conditioning

COP

Coefficient of Performance

ACO

Ant Colony Optimization algorithm

UACO

A virtual machine placement policy based on improved ant colony algorithm