Title
A Cost-Optimized Resource Provisioning Policy for Heterogeneous Cloud Environments.
Abstract
To avoid the drawbacks of a pricing mechanism in heterogeneous cloud environments that considers only single resources, we propose a multi-resource combinatorial pricing mechanism in this paper. This approach jointly considers the principal resources (i.e., CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth) with the goal of minimizing the total cost. Then, a cost-optimized resource provisioning policy (CORPP) based on game theory is applied to this mechanism that considers the Nash equilibrium between cloud users as well as the Stackelberg equilibrium between users and the cloud provider. The experimental results show that the proposed combinatorial pricing mechanism is more suitable in a heterogeneous cloud environment when running various types of cloudlets. Moreover, CORPP is effective in reducing users' total costs when using both random cloudlets and PlanetLab cloudlets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2778145
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heterogeneous cloud,combinatorial pricing,resource provisioning,game theory,Nash equilibrium,Stackelberg equilibrium
PlanetLab,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Provisioning,Game theory,Stackelberg competition,Nash equilibrium,Total cost,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Xin1625120.92
Feng Ding233.41
Tiantian Zhang3247.62
Gang Hou4123.94
Lan Lan536422.89