scholarly journals Virtual Machine Customization Using Resource Using Prediction for Efficient Utilization of Resources in IaaS Public Clouds

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182
Author(s):  
Derdus Kenga ◽  
Vincent Omwenga ◽  
Patrick Ogao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Server Utilization ◽  
Auto Scaling ◽  
Cloud Users

The main cause of energy wastage in cloud data centres is the low level of server utilization. Low server utilization is a consequence of allocating more resources than required for running applications. For instance, in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) public clouds, cloud service providers (CSPs) deliver computing resources in the form of virtual machines (VMs) templates, which the cloud users have to choose from. More often, inexperienced cloud users tend to choose bigger VMs than their application requirements. To address the problem of inefficient resources utilization, the existing approaches focus on VM allocation and migration, which only leads to physical machine (PM) level optimization. Other approaches use horizontal auto-scaling, which is not a visible solution in the case of IaaS public cloud. In this paper, we propose an approach of customizing user VM’s size to match the resources requirements of their application workloads based on an analysis of real backend traces collected from a VM in a production data centre. In this approach, a VM is given fixed size resources that match applications workload demands and any demand that exceeds the fixed resource allocation is predicted and handled through vertical VM auto-scaling. In this approach, energy consumption by PMs is reduced through efficient resource utilization. Experimental results obtained from a simulation on CloudSim Plus using GWA-T-13 Materna real backend traces shows that data center energy consumption can be reduced via efficient resource utilization

scholarly journals Energy-Aware Autonomic Resource Scheduling Framework for Cloud

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhupesh Kumar Dewangan ◽  
Amit Agarwal ◽  
Venkatadri M. ◽  
Ashutosh Pasricha
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Increasing Demand

Cloud computing is a platform where services are provided through the internet either free of cost or rent basis. Many cloud service providers (CSP) offer cloud services on the rental basis. Due to increasing demand for cloud services, the existing infrastructure needs to be scale. However, the scaling comes at the cost of heavy energy consumption due to the inclusion of a number of data centers, and servers. The extraneous power consumption affects the operating costs, which in turn, affects its users. In addition, CO2 emissions affect the environment as well. Moreover, inadequate allocation of resources like servers, data centers, and virtual machines increases operational costs. This may ultimately lead to customer distraction from the cloud service. In all, an optimal usage of the resources is required. This paper proposes to calculate different multi-objective functions to find the optimal solution for resource utilization and their allocation through an improved Antlion (ALO) algorithm. The proposed method simulated in cloudsim environments, and compute energy consumption for different workloads quantity and it increases the performance of different multi-objectives functions to maximize the resource utilization. It compared with existing frameworks and experiment results shows that the proposed framework performs utmost.

scholarly journals ALGORITHM FOR TASK CONSOLIDATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 340-345
Author(s):  
Rajat Pugaliya ◽  
Madhu B R
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Service Provider ◽  
Dynamic Task ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
High Level

Cloud Computing is an emerging field in the IT industry. Cloud computing provides computing services over the Internet. Cloud Computing demand increasing drastically, which has enforced cloud service provider to ensure proper resource utilization with less cost and less energy consumption. In recent time various consolidation problems found in cloud computing like the task, VM, and server consolidation. These consolidation problems become challenging for resource utilization in cloud computing. We found in the literature review that there is a high level of coupling in resource utilization, cost, and energy consumption. The main challenge for cloud service provider is to maximize the resource utilization, reduce the cost and minimize the energy consumption. The dynamic task consolidation of virtual machines can be a way to solve the problem. This paper presents the comparative study of various task consolidation algorithms.

A New Conception of Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Using Tasks Classification Levels

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahim Youssef ◽  
Ben Lahmar El Habib ◽  
Rahhali Hamza ◽  
Labriji El Houssine ◽  
Eddaoui Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Mathematical Functions ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Cloud Users

Cloud users can have access to the service based on “pay as you go.” The daily increase of cloud users may decrease the performance, the availability and the profitability of the material and software resources used in cloud service. These challenges were solved by several load balancing algorithms between the virtual machines of the data centers. In order to determine a new load balancing improvement; this article's discussions will be divided into two research axes. The first, the pre-classification of tasks depending on whether their characteristics are accomplished or not (Notion of Levels). This new technique relies on the modeling of tasks classification based on an ascending order using techniques that calculate the worst-case execution time (WCET). The second, the authors choose distributed datacenters between quasi-similar virtual machines and the modeling of relationship between virtual machines using the pre-scheduling levels is included in the data center in terms of standard mathematical functions that controls this relationship. The key point of the improvement, is considering the current load of the virtual machine of a data center and the pre-estimation of the execution time of a task before any allocation. This contribution allows cloud service providers to improve the performance, availability and maximize the use of virtual machines workload in their data centers.

scholarly journals An Efficient Resource Scheduling Framework for Infrastructure Performance Enhancement in Cloud Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7283-7287
Keyword(s):  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Infrastructure Performance ◽  
Cloud Users ◽  
Level Performance

On-demand cloud services must be provided to customers at any time by ways of cloud service providers due to cloud demand. It is obligatory for cloud service providers to lessen large volumes of data, thereby it can reduce costs for maintaining large storage systems.Infrastructure level performance is an important problem which directly affects the overall working of cloud computing environment. The objective of our framework is enhancing the performance of cloud infrastructure. Proposed approach demonstrates high effective in cloud performance enhancement, as it displays enhancement in both the service providers as well as for cloud users.

scholarly journals Causes of Energy Wastage in Cloud Data Centre Servers : A Survey

2019 ◽  
pp. 416-430
Author(s):  
Kenga Mosoti Derdus ◽  
Vincent Oteke Omwenga ◽  
Patrick Job Ogao
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Electrical Energy Consumption ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Users

Datacenters are becoming the indispensable infrastructure for supporting the services offered by cloud computing. Unfortunately, datacenters consume a lot of energy, which currently stands at 3% of global electrical energy consumption. Consequently, cloud service providers (CSP) experience high operating costs (in terms of electricity bills), which is, in turn, passed to the cloud users. In addition, there is an increased emission of carbon dioxide to the environment. Before one embarks on addressing the problem of energy wastage in a datacenter, it is important to understand the causes of energy wastage in datacenter servers. In this paper, we elaborate on the concept of cloud computing and virtualization. Later, we present a survey of the main causes of energy wastage in datacenter servers as well as proposed solutions to address the problem.

scholarly journals Energy-Efficient Load Balancing Algorithm for Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers Using Queuing and Thresholds

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5849
Author(s):  
Nimra Malik ◽  
Muhammad Sardaraz ◽  
Muhammad Tahir ◽  
Babar Shah ◽  
Gohar Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Tasks Scheduling ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing technology that has been implemented in various fields in recent years, such as business, research, industry, and computing. Cloud computing provides different services over the internet, thus eliminating the need for personalized hardware and other resources. Cloud computing environments face some challenges in terms of resource utilization, energy efficiency, heterogeneous resources, etc. Tasks scheduling and virtual machines (VMs) are used as consolidation techniques in order to tackle these issues. Tasks scheduling has been extensively studied in the literature. The problem has been studied with different parameters and objectives. In this article, we address the problem of energy consumption and efficient resource utilization in virtualized cloud data centers. The proposed algorithm is based on task classification and thresholds for efficient scheduling and better resource utilization. In the first phase, workflow tasks are pre-processed to avoid bottlenecks by placing tasks with more dependencies and long execution times in separate queues. In the next step, tasks are classified based on the intensities of the required resources. Finally, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to select the best schedules. Experiments were performed to validate the proposed technique. Comparative results obtained on benchmark datasets are presented. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm over that of the other algorithms to which it was compared in terms of energy consumption, makespan, and load balancing.

scholarly journals Integrity Audit of Shared Cloud Data with Identity Tracking

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Xue Yan ◽  
Lei Wu ◽  
Wen Yu Xu ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Zhao Man Liu
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Distribution Center ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Shared Data ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Cloud Storage Environment ◽  
Cloud Users

More and more users are uploading their data to the cloud without storing any copies locally. Under the premise that cloud users cannot fully trust cloud service providers, how to ensure the integrity of users’ shared data in the cloud storage environment is one of the current research hotspots. In this paper, we propose a secure and effective data sharing scheme for dynamic user groups. (1) In order to realize the user identity tracking and the addition and deletion of dynamic group users, we add a new role called Rights Distribution Center (RDC) in our scheme. (2) To protect the privacy of user identity, when performing third party audit to verify data integrity, it is not possible to determine which user is a specific user. Therefore, the fairness of the audit can be promoted. (3) Define a new integrity audit model for shared cloud data. In this scheme, the user sends the encrypted data to the cloud and the data tag to the Rights Distribution Center (RDC) by using data blindness technology. Finally, we prove the security of the scheme through provable security theory. In addition, the experimental data shows that our proposed scheme is more efficient and scalable than the state-of-the-art solution.

scholarly journals Energy-Efficient Cloud Service Selection and Recommendation Based on QoS for Sustainable Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 9394
Author(s):  
Preeti Sirohi ◽  
Fahd N. Al-Wesabi ◽  
Haya Mesfer Alshahrani ◽  
Piyush Maheshwari ◽  
Amit Agarwal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Heat Emission ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Servers

The growing demand for cloud technology brings several cloud service providers and their diverse list of services in the market, putting a challenge for the user to select the best service from the inventory of available services. Therefore, a system that understands the user requirements and finds a suitable service according to user-customized requirements is a challenge. In this paper, we propose a new cloud service selection and recommendation system (CS-SR) for finding the optimal service by considering the user’s customized requirements. In addition, the service selection and recommendation system will consider both quantitative and qualitative quality of service (QoS) attributes in service selection. The comparison is made between proposed CS-SR with three existing approaches analytical hierarchy process (A.H.P.), efficient non-dominated sorting-sequential search (ENS-SS), and best-worst method (B.W.M.) shows that CR-SR outperforms the above approaches in two ways (i) reduce the total execution time and (ii) energy consumption to find the best service for the user. The proposed cloud service selection mechanism facilitates reduced energy consumption at cloud servers, thereby reducing the overall heat emission from a cloud data center.

scholarly journals Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Clustering for Consolidation in Multi-tenant IaaS Public Clouds

2019 ◽  
pp. 1123-1136
Author(s):  
Kenga Mosoti Derdus ◽  
Vincent Oteke Omwenga ◽  
Patrick Job Ogao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Allocation Policy ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Vm Allocation ◽  
Vm Consolidation

Cloud computing has gained a lot of interest from both small and big academic and commercial organizations because of its success in delivering service on a pay-as-you-go basis. Moreover, many users (organizations) can share server computing resources, which is made possible by virtualization. However, the amount of energy consumed by cloud data centres is a major concern. One of the major causes of energy wastage is the inefficient utilization of resources. For instance, in IaaS public clouds, users select Virtual Machine (VM) sizes set beforehand by the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) without the knowledge of the kind of workloads to be executed in the VM. More often, the users overprovision the resources, which go to waste. Additionally, the CSPs do not have control over the types of applications that are executed and thus VM consolidation is performed blindly. There have been efforts to address the problem of energy consumption by efficient resource utilization through VM allocation and migration. However, these techniques lack collection and analysis of active real cloud traces from the IaaS cloud. This paper proposes an architecture for VM consolidation through VM profiling and analysis of VM resource usage and resource usage patterns, and a VM allocation policy. We have implemented our policy on CloudSim Plus cloud simulator and results show that it outperforms Worst Fit, Best Fit and First Fit VM allocation algorithms. Energy consumption is reduced through efficient consolidation that is informed by VM resource consumption.

scholarly journals Energy-aware and Carbon-efficient VM Placement Optimization in Cloud Datacenters Using Evolutionary Computing Methods

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahereh Abbasi-khazaei ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Rezvani
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Computing Methods ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Abstract One of the most important concerns of cloud service providers is balancing renewable and fossil energy consumption. On the other hand, the policy of organizations and governments is to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in cloud data centers. Recently, a lot of research has been conducted to optimize the Virtual Machine (VM) placement on physical machines to minimize energy consumption. Many previous studies have not considered the deadline and scheduling of IoT tasks. Therefore, the previous modelings are mainly not well-suited to the IoT environments where requests are time-constraint. Unfortunately, both the sub-problems of energy consumption minimization and scheduling fall into the category of NP-hard issues. In this study, we propose a multi-objective VM placement to joint minimizing energy costs and scheduling. After presenting a modified memetic algorithm, we compare its performance with baseline methods as well as state-of-the-art ones. The simulation results on the CloudSim platform show that the proposed method can reduce energy costs, carbon footprints, SLA violations, and the total response time of IoT requests.

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