Dynamic Resource Allocation and Management in Virtual Networks and Clouds

Download or read book Dynamic Resource Allocation and Management in Virtual Networks and Clouds written by Houda Jmila and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud computing is a promising technology enabling IT resources reservation and utilization on a pay-as-you-go manner. In addition to the traditional computing resources, cloud tenants expect compete networking of their dedicated resources to easily deploy network functions and services. They need to manage an entire Virtual Network (VN) or infrastructure. Thus, Cloud providers should deploy dynamic and adaptive resource provisioning solutions to allocate virtual networks that reflect the time-varying needs of Cloud-hosted applications. Prior work on virtual network resource provisioning only focused on the problem of mapping the virtual nodes and links composing a virtual network request to the substrate network nodes and paths, known as the Virtual network embedding (VNE) problem. Little attention was paid to the resource management of the allocated resources to continuously meet the varying demands of embedded virtual networks and to ensure efficient substrate resource utilization. The aim of this thesis is to enable dynamic and preventive virtual network resources provisioning to deal with demand fluctuation during the virtual network lifetime, and to enhance the substrate resources usage. To reach these goals, the thesis proposes adaptive resource allocation algorithms for evolving virtual network requests. We adress the extension of an embedded virtual node requiring more resources and consider the substrate network profitability. We also deal with the bandwidth demand variation in embedded virtual links. We first provide a heuristic algorithm to deal with virtual nodes demand fluctuation. The work is extended by designing a preventive re-configuration scheme to enhance substrate network profitability. Finally, a distributed, local-view and parallel framework was devised to handle embedded virtual links bandwidth fluctuations. The approach is composed of a controller and three algorithms running in each substrate node in a distributed and parallel manner. The framework is based on the self-stabilization approach, and can manage various forms of bandwidth demand variations simultaneously.