Self-organised resource assignment for on-demand services in the cloud platform
by Zhiqiang Ruan; Dan Yang
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 22, No. 1, 2020

Abstract: It is more popular for a multimedia service provider (MCSP) to deploy many data centres (DCs) in different geographic locations over cloud for delivering video-on-demand (VoD) services to a lot of users. One primary task of the MCSP is to maximise its profit while guarantee the user's quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. However, the stochastic arrival of user requests and the capacity restriction of individual DC make resource management in distributed cloud more challenging than in a general cloud. We present a resource assignment strategy that can accommodate heterogeneous network resources and QoS demands by converting the request distribution problem into the constrained function optimisation problem. An online algorithm is developed and certified approximating to the optimum solution. Compared with other alternatives, our algorithm can cut down more than 35% of operational cost without degrading the QoS of end users.

Online publication date: Mon, 11-May-2020

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