Home // CLOUD COMPUTING 2012, The Third International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization // View article

Cloud-based Healthcare: Towards a SLA Compliant Network Aware Solution for Medical Image Processing

Authors:
Shane Hallett
Gerard Parr
Sally McClean
Aaron McConnell
Basim Majeed

Keywords: cloud computing; virtual machine placement; genetic algorithm; network awareness

Abstract:
Medical image processing in the Cloud can involve moving large data sets and/or applications across the network infrastructure. With the aim of minimizing the total processing time, the optimal placement of image data and processing algorithms on a large scale, distributed Cloud infrastructure is a challenging task. This work presents a genetic algorithm based approach for data and application (virtual machine) placement using hypervisor and network metrics to avoid service level agreement violations. The solution involves placing medical image data and associated processing algorithms at optimized processing and compute nodes located within the Cloud. The results of initial experiments show that a genetic algorithm based placement approach can increase Cloud based application performance.

Pages: 219 to 223

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-216-5

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012