SMDP-Based Coordinated Virtual Machine Allocations in Cloud-Fog Computing Systems - Li, Qizhen; Zhao, Lianwen; Gao, Jie; Liang, Hongbin; Zhao, Lian; Tang, Xiaohu (IEEE internet of things journal, 2018)
Keywords: Allocations; Cloud computing; Cloud-fog computing systems; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Computing costs; Heuristic algorithms; Internet of Things; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Learning (artificial intelligence); Markov analysis; Markov chains; model-based planning; model-free reinforcement learning (RL); Performance enhancement; Planning; Resource management; semi-Markov decision process (SMDP); Transition probabilities; Virtual environments; virtual machine (VM) allocation