Efficient provisioning of resources is a challenging problem in cloud computing environments due to its dynamic nature and the need for supporting heterogeneous applications. Even though VM (Virtual Machine) technology allows several workloads to run concurrently and to use a shared infrastructure, still it does not guarantee application performance. Thus, currently cloud datacenter providers e...

We discuss how decentralized network resource allocation problems fit within the context of mechanism design (realization theory and implementation theory), and how mechanism design can provide useful insight into the nature of decentralized network resource allocation problems. The discussion is guided by the unicast problem with routing and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, and the multi...

Performance of a resource-efficient provisioning framework (RPF) is evaluated in this paper in wavelengthcontinuous optical networks under static traffic. The structure of the survivable routing problem is unraveled by an integer linear programming (ILP) model. Numerical results from direct ILP approaches show that the RPF still achieves more than 10% capacity savings over the traditional provi...

Traffic congestion has adverse consequences on the safety, economy and environment. The loss of productivity due to delays stemming from traffic jams, and increased fuel consumption leads to adverse economic consequences. For example, traffic congestion alone costs the USA 2.8 billion gallons of wasted fuel and a productivity loss of 4.2 billion hours per year [1]. Different studies [2], [3] ha...

of the Dissertation Efficient Provisioning Algorithms for Network Resource Virtualization With QoS Guarantees by Kartik Gopalan Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science Stony Brook University 2003 In recent years, large commercial and non-commercial customers of network service providers (NSP) are increasingly demanding dedicated and fault-tolerant wide-area network connectivity between their r...

Cloud computing is a promising paradigm for deploying applications due to its large resource offerings on a payas-you-go basis. In this report, we examine the problem of determining the most cost-effective provisioning of a multitenant database system as a service over public clouds. We formulate the problem of resource provisioning, and then define a framework to solve it. Our framework uses h...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a vital instrument in serviceoriented architectures to reserve service capacity at a defined service quality level. Provisioning systems enable service managers to automatically configure resources such as servers, storage, and routers based on a configuration specification. Hence, agreement provisioning is a vital step in managing the lifecycle of agreement-...

( LADIS'2011), held in conjunction with VLDB'2011, Seattle, Washington, Sept. 2-3, 2011.  SLO-Driven Right-Sizing and Resource Provisioning of MapReduce Jobs Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell HP Laboratories HPL-2011-126 MapReduce; Hadoop; performance models; completion time prediction; resource allocation There is an increasing number of MapReduce applications, e.g., persona...

| Internet applications from voice to web browsing must be protected from performance degradations caused by network congestion. The challenge is to design admission control, bandwidth management, and resource provisioning procedures so that as many connections as possible can be carried without violating the QoS (quality of service) guaranteed to or expected by users. We consider the relations...