Large Scale Network-Centric Distributed Systems

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Profit-Maximizing Resource Allocation for Multitier Cloud Computing Systems under Service Level Agreements

Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram

Contents

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Review of Datacenter Power Management Techniques

13.3 Review of Datacenter Performance Management Techniques

13.4 System Model of a Multitier Application Placement Problem

13.4.1 Multitier Service Model

13.4.2 SLA Model for This System

13.4.3 Resource Management Problem

13.5 Profit Maximization in a Hosting Datacenter

13.5.1 Problem Formulation

13.5.2 Initial Solution

13.5.3 Resource Consolidation Using Force-Directed Search

13.6 Simulation Results

13.7 Conclusion

References

13.1 Introduction

Demand for computing power has been increasing due to the penetration of information technologies in our daily interactions with the world both, at personal and communal levels, encompassing business, commerce, education, manufacturing, and communication services. At the personal level, the wide-scale presence of online banking, e-commerce, SaaS (Software as a Service), social networking, and so on produce workloads of great diversity and enormous scale. At the same time, computing and information-processing requirements of various public organizations and private corporations have also been increasing rapidly. Examples include digital services and functions required by various industries, ranging from manufacturing to housing, and from transportation to banking. Such a dramatic increase in the computing resources ...