Clarkson University researchers recently received the Best Paper Award at the High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies international conference this winter.

The paper, "Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Migration Revisited: Service Level Agreement Assurance and Minimum Service Disruption with Available Hosts," began as a term project by electrical engineering alumnus Phil Glasser.

Assistant Professor Burak Kantarci and Associate Professor Jeanna Matthews, along with a University of Rochester professor Tolga Soyata continued the project.

Glasser was researching green virtual machine migration for data centers with minimum disruption as a graduate student in a cloud systems and networks course.

The paper proposed a virtual machine migration approach that reduces service level agreement violations by running virtual machines in a data center with more available physical hosts as opposed to shutting down idle hosts to save energy.