scholarly journals Improving Quality-of-Service in Cloud/Fog Computing through Efficient Resource Allocation

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson Akintoye ◽  
Antoine Bagula
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Task Allocation ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Virtual Resources

Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate methods for allocating cloud-user applications to virtual resources, and virtual resources to the physical resources. The effective allocation of resources in cloud data centers is also one of the vital optimization problems in cloud computing, particularly when the cloud service infrastructures are built by lightweight computing devices. In this paper, we formulate and present the task allocation and virtual machine placement problems in a single cloud/fog computing environment, and propose a task allocation algorithmic solution and a Genetic Algorithm Based Virtual Machine Placement as solutions for the task allocation and virtual machine placement problem models. Finally, the experiments are carried out and the results show that the proposed solutions improve Quality-of-Service in the cloud/fog computing environment in terms of the allocation cost.

Location and Provisioning Problems in Cloud Computing Networks

2013 ◽  
pp. 22-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Larumbe ◽  
Brunilde Sansò
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Network Efficiency ◽  
Placement Problem ◽  
The Cost

This chapter addresses a set of optimization problems that arise in cloud computing regarding the location and resource allocation of the cloud computing entities: the data centers, servers, software components, and virtual machines. The first problem is the location of new data centers and the selection of current ones since those decisions have a major impact on the network efficiency, energy consumption, Capital Expenditures (CAPEX), Operational Expenditures (OPEX), and pollution. The chapter also addresses the Virtual Machine Placement Problem: which server should host which virtual machine. The number of servers used, the cost, and energy consumption depend strongly on those decisions. Network traffic between VMs and users, and between VMs themselves, is also an important factor in the Virtual Machine Placement Problem. The third problem presented in this chapter is the dynamic provisioning of VMs to clusters, or auto scaling, to minimize the cost and energy consumption while satisfying the Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This important feature of cloud computing requires predictive models that precisely anticipate workload dimensions. For each problem, the authors describe and analyze models that have been proposed in the literature and in the industry, explain advantages and disadvantages, and present challenging future research directions.

Virtual Machine Placement Using Statistical Mechanism in Cloud Computing Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Narander Kumar ◽  
Surendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Assignment Problems ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
Statistical Mechanism

The internet has become essential and is the basis of cloud computing and will continue to be in the future. Best resource allocation is a process of placing the resources at their minimum cost/time and minimizes the load to a virtual machine. In this article, the authors propose an algorithm to optimize assignment problems and get the best placements in the resources to maintain the load on the virtual machine. Further, they also make comparisons between various optimization mechanisms for assignment problems, which is formulated for the cloud in virtual machine placement.

scholarly journals Service Level Agreement Violation Preventive Task Scheduling for Quality of Service Delivery in Cloud Computing Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 375-385
Author(s):  
Ismail Zahraddeen Yakubu ◽  
Zainab Aliyu Musa ◽  
Lele Muhammed ◽  
Badamasi Ja’afaru ◽  
Fatima Shittu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Task Scheduling ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment

scholarly journals Fog Computing-Security Platform for IoT and Cloud in-Healthcare System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4419-4424
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Selection System ◽  
Search Tool

The introduction of cloud computing has revolutionized business and technology. Cloud computing has merged technology and business creating an almost indistinguishable framework. Cloud computing has utilized various techniques that have been vital in reshaping the way computers are used in business, IT, and education. Cloud computing has replaced the distributed system of using computing resources to a centralized system where resources are easily shared between user and organizations located in different geographical locations. Traditionally the resources are usually stored and managed by a third-party, but the process is usually transparent to the user. The new technology led to the introduction of various user needs such as to search the cloud and associated databases. The development of a selection system used to search the cloud such as in the case of ELECTRE IS and Skyline; this research will develop a system that will be used to manage and determine the quality of service constraints of these new systems with regards to networked cloud computing. The method applied will mimic the various selection system in JAVA and evaluate the Quality of service for multiple cloud services. The FogTorch search tool will be used for quality service management of three cloud services.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Technique for Server Consolidation in Cloud Computing Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
C. Vijaya ◽  
P. Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
Hybrid Technique ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Placement Problem ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
Server Consolidation ◽  
Memory Utilization

AbstractThe goal of data centers in the cloud computing environment is to provision the workloads and the computing resources as demanded by the users without the intervention of the providers. To achieve this, virtualization based server consolidation acts as a vital part in virtual machine placement process. Consolidating the Virtual Machines (VMs) on the Physical Machines (PMs) cuts down the unused physical servers, decreasing the energy consumption, while keeping the constraints for CPU and memory utilization. This technique also reduces the resource wastage and optimizes the available resources efficiently. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) that is a well-known multi objective heuristic algorithm and Grey Wolf Algorithm (GWO) has been used to consolidate the servers used in the virtual machine placement problem. The proposed Fuzzy HAGA algorithm outperforms the other algorithms MMAS, ACS, FFD and Fuzzy ACS compared against it as the number of processors and memory utilization are lesser than these algorithms.

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