Workload Characterization: Survey of Current Approaches and Research Challenges

Abstract

Workload is a set of inputs given to a infrastructure for processing. Performance can be measured based on the efficient processing of the workloads. Different workloads has different set of characteristics. In this paper, we have mainly focused on cloud workloads. Understanding the characteristics of workloads is the key to make an optimal configuration decisions and improve the system performance. This paper describes various computing workloads and relates them to their resource utilization. Specifically, the paper concentrates on cloud workloads characterization. We have classified the workloads based on different aspects from the literature also we have provided the characteristic features of the workload to know the properties and make it more understandable for the researchers. � 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.