A cost-aware auto-scaling approach using the workload prediction in service clouds

Service clouds are distributed infrastructures which deploys communication services in clouds. The scalability is an important characteristic of service clouds. With the scalability, the service cloud can offer on-demand computing power and storage capacities to different services. In order to achie...

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Published in:Information systems frontiers 2014-03, Vol.16 (1), p.7-18
Main Authors: Yang, Jingqi, Liu, Chuanchang, Shang, Yanlei, Cheng, Bo, Mao, Zexiang, Liu, Chunhong, Niu, Lisha, Chen, Junliang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Architecture (computers)
Business and Management
Cloud computing
Control
Costs
Information systems
Infrastructure
IT in Business
Management of Computing and Information Systems
Mathematical models
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Real time
Regression
Regression analysis
Scalability
Storage capacity
Studies
Systems Theory
Workload
Workloads
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Summary:Service clouds are distributed infrastructures which deploys communication services in clouds. The scalability is an important characteristic of service clouds. With the scalability, the service cloud can offer on-demand computing power and storage capacities to different services. In order to achieve the scalability, we need to know when and how to scale virtual resources assigned to different services. In this paper, a novel service cloud architecture is presented, and a linear regression model is used to predict the workload. Based on this predicted workload, an auto-scaling mechanism is proposed to scale virtual resources at different resource levels in service clouds. The auto-scaling mechanism combines the real-time scaling and the pre-scaling. Finally experimental results are provided to demonstrate that our approach can satisfy the user Service Level Agreement (SLA) while keeping scaling costs low.
ISSN:1387-3326
1572-9419
DOI:10.1007/s10796-013-9459-0