ARE UTILITY, PRICE, AND SATISFACTION BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION MODELS SUITABLE FOR LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS?
Xin Bai, Ladislau L Bölöni, Dan Cristian Marinescu, Howard Jay Siegel, Rose A. Daley, I-Jeng Wang · 2006
In this paper, we discuss a resource allocation model that takes into account the utility of the resources for the consumers and the pricing structure imposed by the providers. We show how a satisfaction function can express the preferences of the consumer both regarding the utility and the price of the resources. In our model, the brokers are mediating among the selfish interests of the consumers and the providers, and societal interests, such as efficient resource utilization in the system. We report a simulation study on the performance of the model. 1.