• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1910-1917
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• 2011

In this paper, a cloud computing platform is designed and implemented based on an open source cloud platform, OpenNebula, and Xen hypervisor on each node for efficient computer lab system. For the purpose of convenient management, a web-based user interface has been developed for the cloud virtualization system. Once individual virtual machine is allocated to a user based upon class schedule, each user can access the virtual machine remotely and use appropriate operating system and application programs. The developed system can reduce computer lab upgrade cost, management cost, and administration time considerably.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.213-221
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• 2012

In this paper, a dynamic power management system is proposed to reduce energy consumption for multiple clients in cloud computing environments. The proposed system monitors both keyboard and mouse input from the user, available memory, and CPU usage in the virtual machine. If the system detects no keyboard and mouse input for a certain amount of time and both available memory and CPU usage reach predefined threshold value, the manager in the virtual machine orders the client to shutdown the client machine, which results in significant power save. The developed system is applied to the real university computer lab and the performance of the system is evaluated.