Adaptive Resource Provisioning based on Application State

Main Authors: Constantine Ayimba, Paolo Casari, Vincenzo Mancuso
Format: Proceeding Journal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2019
Subjects:
NFV
SLA
QoS
Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3245318
Daftar Isi:
  • Infrastructure providers employing Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a cloud computing context need to find a balance between optimal resource utilization and adherence to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Tenants should be allocated as much computing, storage and network capacity as they need in order not to violate SLAs, but not more so that the infrastructure provider can accommodate more tenants to increase revenue. This paper presents an optimizer VNF that ensures that a given virtual machine (VM) is sufficiently utilized before directing traffic to another VM, and an orchestrator VNF that scales the number of VMs up or down as needed when workloads change, thereby limiting the number of active VMs to a minimum that can deliver the service. We setup a testbed to transcode and stream Video on Demand (VoD) as a service. We present experimental results which show that when the optimizer and orchestrator are used together they outperform static provisioning in terms of both resource utilization and service response times.
  • Proceedings of ICNC 2019