Title
Merkat: A Market-Based SLO-Driven Cloud Platform
Abstract
Cloud computing brings new service models that offer users more flexibility and better resource control promising to improve the user's satisfaction in terms of Quality of Service. However, current cloud solutions, in particular above the Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer, don't provide automated solutions that address the Quality of Service users may want for their applications. In this paper we present Merkat, a platform that is capable to dynamically share cloud resources between the different application types using a market-based resource allocation mechanism. Merkat provides fair and maximum resource utilization by allocating fine-grained resource amounts to users proportionally to their communicated value. In the same time, autonomous controllers provide Service Level Objective support by applying elasticity rules to scale the application demand according to user performance objectives. Our experiments show that Merkat is able to efficiently react to changes in application load and user requirements, leading to better user satisfaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CloudCom.2013.59
CloudCom), 2013 IEEE 5th International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud computing,quality of service,resource allocation,Merkat,autonomous controllers,cloud computing,dynamic cloud resource sharing,fine-grained resource allocation,infrastructure-as-a-service layer,market-based SLO-driven cloud platform,market-based resource allocation mechanism,quality of service,resource control,service level objective,service models,user satisfaction,PaaS,cloud computing,high performance computing,resource management
Resource management,Service level objective,Computer science,Resource allocation (computer),Resource allocation,Utility computing,Data as a service,Cloud testing,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1
2330-2194
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefania Costache116810.79
Nikos Parlavantzas246047.62
Christine Morin322626.78
Samuel Kortas4172.52