Fair service matching agent for federated cloud. (June 2019) - Sudhakar, S.
Highlights : Fair service matching agent model is proposed for federated cloud. Agent based fair service selection model distributes service requests evenly to all cloud provider in the federation. Fair service matching agent model solves starvation problem. Abstract: A federated cloud is a group of cloud service providers operating together for service sharing. In the federation, cloud service providers obtain services from providers when their services are insufficient to meet the demand. The federated cloud uses agent-based, incentive-based or reciprocal resource fairness-based techniques for service selection. In agent-based service selection, the agent selects the best service provider for service sharing. Distributing the service requests among the service providers of the federation is a challenging task. The agent-based service selection techniques do not distribute service requests to all cloud providers in the federated cloud. Additionally, the agent-based service selection techniques rarely present service offers to the newly joined cloud provider. To fairly distribute the service requests, a new agent named "A Fair Service Matching Agent (FSMA)", fairly distributes service requests to all cloud providers in the federated cloud and provides a fair chance to the newly joined cloud provider. The experimental results demonstrate FSMA outperforms the existing traditional Cloud Resource Bartering system.