Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4962623 | Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory | 2017 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Services of different types are provided to paying customers by instantiating Virtual Machines on servers hired from a cloud. Different VMs can share a server, subject to one or more resource constraints. Incoming jobs whose resource requirements cannot be satisfied are lost. The objective is to maximize the long-term average profit per unit time. A single-server model is analyzed exactly and the results provide approximations for the system with n servers. The latter is also solved exactly when the servers are dedicated and when the VMs can migrate instantaneously. Numerical examples and comparisons with simulations are presented.
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Authors
Paul Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitrani,