Dynamic Request Allocation and Scheduling for Context Aware Applications Subject to a Percentile Response Time SLA in a Distributed Cloud

• Published in: 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science pp. 464 - 472
• Main Authors: Boloor, K, Chirkova, R, Viniotis, Y, Salo, T
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2010
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Context; context aware applications; Context-aware services; Dynamic scheduling; Request allocation and scheduling; Resource management; Servers; Service Level Agreements; Service oriented architecture; Time factors
• ISBN: 1424494052; 9781424494057
• DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.96

We consider geographically distributed data centers forming a collectively managed cloud computing system, hosting multiple Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based context aware applications, each subject to Service Level Agreements (SLA). The Service Level Agreements for each context aware application require the response time of a certain percentile of the input requests to be less than a specified value for a profit to be charged by the cloud provider. We present a novel approach of data-oriented dynamic service-request allocation with gi-FIFO scheduling, in each of the geographically distributed data centers, to globally increase the profit charged by the cloud computing system. Our evaluation shows that our dynamic scheme far outperforms the commonly deployed static allocation with either First in First Out (FIFO) or Weighted Round Robin (WRR) scheduling.