Novel Auction Mechanism with Factor Distribution Rule for Cloud Resource Allocation
Hsiao-Yun Chang, H.-C. Lu, Y.-H. Huang, Y.-W. Lin, Yih‐Jou Tzang · The Computer Journal · 2013
This study proposes a novel auction mechanism with low-complexity factor distribution (FD) rule for cloud resource allocation. This mechanism offers all clients an effective number of running cloud servers and uses the advantage of localized resources. The findings show the existence of a ‘magic number’ k. When the remaining bandwidth of a cloud server is lower than k, the cloud server bandwidth is optimally used. Clients are allocated to cloud servers by an auction mechanism when the remaining bandwidth of a cloud server is greater than k, and by the low complexity of FD when it is lower than k. Results show that the number of cloud servers with remaining bandwidth was reduced and clients could also access localized resources. The results show that the proposed mechanism can improve the utilization of cloud servers by as much as 99.95%.