Cloud Virtual Network Embedding: Profit, Power and Acceptance
Leonard Nonde, Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani · 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) · 2015
In this paper, we investigate maximizing the profit achieved by infrastructure providers (InPs) from embedding virtual network requests (VNRs) in IP/WDM core networks with clouds. We develop a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to study the impact of maximizing the profit on the power consumption and acceptance of VNRs. The results show that higher acceptance rates do not necessarily lead to higher profit due to the high cost associated with accepting some of the requests. The results also show that minimum power consumption can be achieved while maintaining the maximum profit