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Multi-class resource sharing with batch arrivals

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Paul EzhilchelvanORCiD, Emeritus Professor Isi Mitrani

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Abstract

A cloud provider hosts virtual machines (VMs) of different types, with different resource requirements. There are bounds on the total amounts of each kind of resource that are available. Requests arrive in batches of different sizes. Under the ‘complete blocking’ policy, a request is accepted only if all the VMs in its batch can be accommodated. The ‘partial blocking’ policy would accept a request if there is room for at least one of the VMs in the batch. Blocked requests are lost, with an associated loss of revenue. The trade-offs between costs and benefits are evaluated by means of appropriate models, for which novel solutions based on fixed-point iterations are proposed. The applicability of those solutions is extended, by means of simplifications, to very large-scale systems. Numerical examples and comparisons with simulations are presented.


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Author(s): Ezhilchelvan P, Mitrani I

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Year: 2019

Volume: 33

Issue: 3

Pages: 348-366

Print publication date: 01/07/2019

Online publication date: 21/09/2018

Acceptance date: 14/09/2018

Date deposited: 18/10/2018

ISSN (print): 0269-9648

ISSN (electronic): 1469-8951

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964818000323

DOI: 10.1017/S0269964818000323


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