A QoS-aware resource allocation framework in virtualised cloud environments. (29th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tian, Yuan
• Is Part Of: International journal of networking and virtual organisations. Volume 21:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 336
• Page End: 350
• Publication Date: 2019-10-29
• Subjects: cloud computing -- virtual machine -- resource allocation -- quality-of-service -- QoS; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Information networks -- Periodicals; Virtual corporations -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Management -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 004.65
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-9503

Abstract

In cloud platforms, resource allocation service plays an important role for running user applications efficiently. However, current allocation mechanism in many cloud platforms only provides best-effort service for user's jobs, which means that user's quality-of-service (QoS) requirements can not be well guaranteed. In this paper, we present a novel QoS-aware resource allocation framework, which applies feedback control technique to achieve the goal of fair resource allocation between multiple virtual machine (VM) instances. Theoretical analysis of the proposed control model has proven that it can meet the feasibility and stability requirements. Experimental results conducted on a real-world cloud platform show that the proposed resource allocation framework can significantly improve the effective resource utilisation as well as the overall task execution efficiency. In addition, the proposed framework also shows better robustness when the cloud platform is in presence of highly dynamic workload.