scholarly journals Resource Allocation Techniques in Cloud Computing: A Review and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Muhammad Faraz Manzoor ◽  
Adnan Abid ◽  
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq ◽  
Naeem A. Azam ◽  
Uzma Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Computing Model ◽  
Structured Literature Review

Cloud computing has become a very important computing model to process data and execute computationally concentrated applications in pay-per-use method. Resource allocation is a process in which the resources are allocated to consumers by cloud providers based on their flexible requirements. As the data is expanding every day, allocating resources efficiently according to the consumer demand has also become very important, keeping Service Level Agreement (SLA) between service providers and consumers in prospect. This task of resource allocation becomes more challenging due to finite available resources and increasing consumer demands. Therefore, many unique models and techniques have been proposed to allocate resources efficiently. In the light of the uniqueness of the models and techniques, the main aim of the resource allocation is to limit the overhead/expenses associated with it. This research aims to present a comprehensive, structured literature review on different aspects of resource allocation in cloud computing, including strategic, target resources, optimization, scheduling and power. More than 50 articles, between year 2007 and 2019, related to resource allocation in cloud computing have been shortlisted through a structured mechanism and they are reviewed under clearly defined objectives. It presents a topical taxonomy of resource allocation dimensions, and articles under each category are discussed and analysed. Lastly, salient future directions in this area are discussed.

Distance Aware VM allocation process to minimize energy consumption in cloud computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Singh ◽  
Manish Mahajan ◽  
Rajni Mohana
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Physical Machine ◽  
Allocation Process

BACKGROUND: Cloud computing is considered as an on-demand service resource with the applications towards data center on pay per user basis. For allocating the resources appropriately for the satisfaction of user needs, an effective and reliable resource allocation method is required. Because of the enhanced user demand, the allocation of resources has now considered as a complex and challenging task when a physical machine is overloaded, Virtual Machines share its load by utilizing the physical machine resources. Previous studies lack in energy consumption and time management while keeping the Virtual Machine at the different server in turned on state. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: The main aim of this research work is to propose an effective resource allocation scheme for allocating the Virtual Machine from an ad hoc sub server with Virtual Machines. EXECUTION MODEL: The execution of the research has been carried out into two sections, initially, the location of Virtual Machines and Physical Machine with the server has been taken place and subsequently, the cross-validation of allocation is addressed. For the sorting of Virtual Machines, Modified Best Fit Decreasing algorithm is used and Multi-Machine Job Scheduling is used while the placement process of jobs to an appropriate host. Artificial Neural Network as a classifier, has allocated jobs to the hosts. Measures, viz. Service Level Agreement violation and energy consumption are considered and fruitful results have been obtained with a 37.7 of reduction in energy consumption and 15% improvement in Service Level Agreement violation.

Broker-based optimization of SLA negotiations in cloud computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Priyanka Bharti ◽  
Rajeev Ranjan ◽  
Bhanu Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Sla Negotiation ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
The Impact

Cloud computing provisions and allocates resources, in advance or real-time, to dynamic applications planned for execution. This is a challenging task as the Cloud-Service-Providers (CSPs) may not have sufficient resources at all times to satisfy the resource requests of the Cloud-Service-Users (CSUs). Further, the CSPs and CSUs have conflicting interests and may have different utilities. Service-Level-Agreement (SLA) negotiations among CSPs and CSUs can address these limitations. User Agents (UAs) negotiate for resources on behalf of the CSUs and help reduce the overall costs for the CSUs and enhance the resource utilization for the CSPs. This research proposes a broker-based mediation framework to optimize the SLA negotiation strategies between UAs and CSPs in Cloud environment. The impact of the proposed framework on utility, negotiation time, and request satisfaction are evaluated. The empirical results show that these strategies favor cooperative negotiation and achieve significantly higher utilities, higher satisfaction, and faster negotiation speed for all the entities involved in the negotiation.

Resource Allocation Policies in Cloud Computing Environment

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvendu Chandan Nayak ◽  
Sasmita Parida ◽  
Chitaranjan Tripathy ◽  
Prasant Kumar Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cloud Datacenter

The basic concept of cloud computing is based on “Pay per Use”. The user can use the remote resources on demand for computing on payment basis. The on-demand resources of the user are provided according to a Service Level Agreement (SLA). In real time, the tasks are associated with a time constraint for which they are called deadline based tasks. The huge number of deadline based task coming to a cloud datacenter should be scheduled. The scheduling of this task with an efficient algorithm provides better resource utilization without violating SLA. In this chapter, we discussed the backfilling algorithm and its different types. Moreover, the backfilling algorithm was proposed for scheduling tasks in parallel. Whenever the application environment is changed the performance of the backfilling algorithm is changed. The chapter aims implementation of different types of backfilling algorithms. Finally, the reader can be able to get some idea about the different backfilling scheduling algorithms that are used for scheduling deadline based task in cloud computing environment at the end.

SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 196-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Zhu Hong ◽  
Nueraimaiti Aimaier ◽  
Zhu Guo Li
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

Cloud Computing is not a revolution; it’s an evolution of computer science and technology emerging by leaps and bounds, in order to merge all computer science tools and technologies. Cloud Computing technology is hottest to do research and explore new horizons of next generations of Computer Science. There are number of cloud services providers (Amazon EC2), Rackspace Cloud, Terremark and Google Compute Engine) but still enterprises and common users have a number of concerns over cloud service providers. Still there is lot of weakness, challenges and issues are barrier for cloud service providers in order to provide cloud services according to SLA (Service Level agreement). Especially, service provisioning according to SLAs is core objective of each cloud service provider with maximum performance as per SLA. We have identified those challenges issues, as well as proposed new methodology as “SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services”. Currently, cloud service providers are using “orchestrations” fully or partially to automate service provisioning but we are trying to integrate and drive orchestration flows from SLAs. It would be new approach to provision cloud service and deliver cloud service as per SLA, satisfying QoS standards.

scholarly journals A Novel Probabilistic Strategy for Delay Corrected Allocation in Shared Resource Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
G. Arun Kumar ◽  
Aravind Sundaresan ◽  
Snehanshu Saha ◽  
Bidisha Goswami ◽  
Shakti Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Peak Load ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Provider ◽  
Average Delay ◽  
Priori Information

Abstract Cloud computing offers scalable services to the user where computing resources are owned by a cloud provider. The resources are offered to clients on pay-per-use basis. However, since multiple clients share the cloud’s resources, they could potentially interfere with each others’ task during peak load instances. The environment changes every instant of time with a new set of job requests demanding resource while another set of jobs relieving another set of resources. A major challenge among the service providers is to maintain a balance without compromising Service Level Agreement (SLA). In case of peak load, when each client strives for a particular resource in minimal time, the resource allocation problem becomes more challenging. The important issue is to fulfil the SLA criterion without delaying the resource allocation. The paper proposes a n-player game-based Machine learning strategy that would forecast outcome using a priori information available and measure/estimate existing parameters such as utilization and delay in an optimal load-balanced paradigm. The simulation validates the conclusion of the theorem by showing that average delay is low and stays in that range as the number of job requests increase. In future, we shall extend this work to multi-resource, multi-user environment.

scholarly journals A Cost Improvement Rule Victimisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2604-2607
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Prior Information ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Software As A Service ◽  
Effective Technique ◽  
The Public ◽  
Platform As A Service ◽  
Data Objects

Cloud computing is an effective technique used by developers and other users to implement different use styles. We will take up an issue in this paper which is very popular in the present era. “Storage-as-a-Service” is a category in cloud computing that uses cloud to store data with internet assistance. These online services use other categories of cloud computing namely “Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service”.“Storage-as-a-Service (Staas)” is made available for the public use at certain prices. There are many service providers that are charging unreasonable amounts of money. So, we have come up with a better algorithm to overcome this problem. Our algorithm resolves the issue of transferring the data objects from one tier to another by excluding the prior information of the accesses. This algorithm allows us to find the breakthroughs for making transfer decisions.The proposed system makes sure that the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and reliability of reservations does remodel diverse resources and provide a tool that reduces victimization through Two-Tier StaaS.

On the Conceptualization of Elastic Service Evaluation in Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1587-1601
Author(s):  
Danqing Feng ◽  
Zhibo Wu ◽  
Zhan Zhang ◽  
Jinwei Fu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Resource Optimization ◽  
Resource Allocations ◽  
Allocation Strategy ◽  
Resource Allocation Strategy ◽  
Different Dimensions

Cloud computing is becoming an urgent technology in the enterprises. One key characteristic in the cloud computing is the elasticity. Then, it is urgent for the users how to rank the renting services reasonably. Considering the main features of the elasticity, this article gives classification on resource optimization. However, one of the major challenges is how to optimize resource allocation in an elastic manner. Due to the special pay-as-you-go manner, resource optimizing strategies are associated with the goal of minimizing the costs on the premise of service-level-agreement (SLA). Another challenge of resource optimizing strategies is to how to dynamically respond to the application demands. In this paper, the authors sketch the elastic definition more clearly. Secondly, different dimensions are described on elastic resource allocations. Thirdly, it is important to seek out the proper resource allocation strategy. Finally, the challenges and conclusions are discussed in this article.

scholarly journals Conceptual Service Level Agreement Mechanism to Minimize the SLA Violation with SLA Negotiation Process in Cloud Computing Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2(Suppl.)) ◽  
pp. 1020
Author(s):  
Narander Kumar ◽  
Surendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service User ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Cloud Computing Service ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

Online service is used to be as Pay-Per-Use in Cloud computing. Service user need not be in a long time contract with cloud service providers. Service level agreements (SLAs) are understandings marked between a cloud service providers and others, for example, a service user, intermediary operator, or observing operators. Since cloud computing is an ongoing technology giving numerous services to basic business applications and adaptable systems to manage online agreements are significant. SLA maintains the quality-of-service to the cloud user. If service provider fails to maintain the required service SLA is considered to be SLA violated. The main aim is to minimize the SLA violations for maintain the QoS of their cloud users. In this research article, a toolbox is proposed to help the procedure of exchanging of a SLA with the service providers that will enable the cloud client in indicating service quality demands and an algorithm as well as Negotiation model is also proposed to negotiate the request with the service providers to produce a better agreement between service provider and cloud service consumer. Subsequently, the discussed framework can reduce SLA violations as well as negotiation disappointments and have expanded cost-adequacy. Moreover, the suggested SLA toolkit is additionally productive to clients so clients can secure a sensible value repayment for diminished QoS or conceding time. This research shows the assurance level in the cloud service providers can be kept up by as yet conveying the services with no interruption from the client's perspective

scholarly journals A Survey on Improving QoS in Service Level Agreement for Cloud Computing Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (21) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Afaf Edinat ◽  
Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed ◽  
Amjad Hudaib
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Shared Services ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
The Relationship

Cloud computing is considered one of the most important techniques in the field of distributed computing which contributes to maintain increased scalability and flexibility in computer processing. This is achieved because it, using the Internet, provides different resources and shared services with minimum costs. Cloud service providers (CSPs) offer many different services to their customers, where the customers’ needs are met seeking the highest levels of quality at the lowest considerate prices. The relationship between CSPs and customers must be determined in a formal agreement, and to ensure how the QoS between them will be fulfilled, a clear Service Level Agreement (SLA) must be called for. Several previously-proposed models used in the literature to improve the QoS in the SLA for cloud computing and to face many of the challenges in the SLA are reviewed in this paper. We also addressed the challenges that are related to the violations of SLAs, and how overcoming them will enhance customers’ satisfaction. Furthermore, we proposed a model based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and an enhanced DRL agent (EDRLA). In this model, and by optimizing the learning process in EDRLA, proposed agents would be able to have optimal CSPs by improving the learning process in EDRLA. This improvement will be reflected in the agent's performance and considerably affect it, especially in identifying cloud computing requirements based on the QoS metrics.

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