Winter Seminar, Edward Knightly, February 13, 2003

Edward Knightly, associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments at Rice University, presented his lecture “QoS-Driven Server Migration for Internet Data Centers”. He received the B.S. degree from Auburn University in 1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1996 respectively. His research interests are in the areas of quality-of-service, scheduling, admission control, and media access protocols in wireless and wireline networks. ABSTRACT: Many organizations have chosen to host Internet applications at Internet Data Centers (IDCs) located near network access points of the Internet to take advantage of their high availability, large network bandwidths and low network latencies. Current IDCs provide for a dedicated and static allocation of resources to each hosted application. Unfortunately, workloads for these sites are highly variable, leading to poor resource utilization, poor application performance, or both. In his talk, he described a framework for QoS-driven dynamic resource allocation in IDCs, termed QuID, Quality of Service Infrastructure on Demand.