Paper Info
Title
A SLA-Based resource donation mechanism for service hosting utility center
Abstract
The increasing cost of owning and managing IT systems is leading to outsourcing commercial online services to service hosting utility centers by means of service level agreements (SLAs). Low resource utilization and partial service overload are two main issues in utility centers operation. The paper describes a SLA-based fine-grained resource donation mechanism to encourage applications to share under-utilized server resources. Donated resources can be dynamically borrowed by overloaded applications to relieve transient workload surge. Two donation strategies are presented to compensate the “donors” based on their quantified contribution. Compared with resource stealing, the proposed mechanism has advantages in two-fold. First, it’s an incentive-compatible one in that both donor applications and utility centers can benefit from resource donation. Secondly, the donors can manifestly specify donation constraints in SLAs to reflect both QoS requirements and resource consumption patterns, which can help improve reliability of resource sharing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11590354_89
GCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
resource consumption pattern,utility center,sla-based fine-grained resource donation,low resource utilization,donation constraint,resource donation,donated resource,under-utilized server resource,sla-based resource donation mechanism,resource sharing,donation strategy,resource utilization,incentive compatibility
Donation,Service level,Service quality,Information technology,Computer science,Computer security,Service-level agreement,Computer network,Quality of service,Outsourcing,Risk analysis (engineering),Shared resource
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3795
0302-9743
3-540-30510-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yufeng Wang1152.53
Wang Huaimin21025121.31
Yan Jia310.36
Dian-Xi Shi410025.92
Bixin Liu593.04