Utility-Driven Deployment Decision Making
Radhika Loomba, Thijs Metsch, Leonard Feehan, Joe Butler · 2017
This paper presents the formulation of two utility functions, for the resource provider and the service customer respectively, to enable the orchestrator to consider business goals/incentives when making comparisons between deployments. The use of cost elements in these utilities further supports a precise exposure of the value proposition of differentiated or heterogeneous infrastructure, which is greatly beneficial to resource providers.