Université De Montréal Planning and Management
UNIVERSITE´ DE MONTREAL´ PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS FEDERICO LARUMBE DEPARTEMENT´ DE GENIE´ ELECTRIQUE´ ECOLE´ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL´ THESE` PRESENT´ EE´ EN VUE DE L'OBTENTION DU DIPLOME^ DE PHILOSOPHIÆ DOCTOR (GENIE´ ELECTRIQUE)´ SEPTEMBRE 2013 c Federico Larumbe, 2013. UNIVERSITE´ DE MONTREAL´ ECOLE´ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL´ Cette th`eseintitul´ee: PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS pr´esent´eepar: LARUMBE Federico en vue de l'obtention du dipl^omede: Philosophiæ Doctor a ´et´ed^ument accept´eepar le jury d'examen constitu´ede: M. GIRARD Andr´e,Ph.D., pr´esident Mme SANSO` Brunilde, Ph.D., membre et directrice de recherche M. EL HALLAOUI Issmail, Ph.D., membre M. GREGOIRE´ Jean-Charles, Ph.D., membre iii To my family iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This thesis has been possible thanks to the strong support of my research advisor Brunilde Sans`othat shared her knowledge, motivation, and resources as well as the creation of a lab with excellent people. I appreciate very much the availability and valuable comments of the jury Andr´eGirard, Issmail El Hallaoui, and Jean-Charles Gr´egoire.I am also very thankful for the help of my colleagues and friends Marnie Vodounou, L^eNguyen, and Hadhami Dbira. This thesis has also been possible thanks to the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) and Polytechnique Montr´ealthat provided an environment with very bright people in optimization and telecommunication. v ABSTRACT The evolution of the Internet has a great impact on a big part of the population. People use it to communicate, query information, receive news, work, and as entertainment.
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