Presentation 2016-11-24
A Study of Computing Resource Allocation Based on Model Predictive Control for Business-Critical Systems in Hybrid Cloud Environment
Yukio Ogawa, Go Hasegawa, Masayuki Murata,
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Abstract(in English) In this report, business-critical application systems are constructed from computing resources provided by both private and public data centers. A private data center provides fixed resources for processing average workloads, whereas a public data center supplies on-demand resources for handling peak workloads. This system architecture enables us to satisfy application system requirements such as availability and performance as well as to maximize the resource utilization. This report presents a model predictive control approach for maintaining a target system utilization without too often scaling-out/in computing resources in such a hybrid cloud environment. We first formulated a cost function regarding the deployment of physical and virtual servers as well as fault tolerance and operation of them. We then conducted numerical simulations. % with arrival traces collected from actual web systems. The results indicate that, although an application system often experiences high utilization level above a threshold because of prediction errors, counting the operational cost reduces the frequency of scaling-out/in the resources, resulting in alleviating the high utilization.
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Keyword(in English) hybrid cloud / model predictive control / computing resources / utilization
Paper # NS2016-101
Date of Issue 2016-11-17 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee NS / CQ / ICM
Conference Date 2016/11/24(2days)
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Place (in English) Shimonoseki Chember of Commerce and Industry
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Topics (in English) Network Quality, Network Measurement and Management, Network Virtualization, Network Service, General
Chair Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.) / Toshio Tonouchi(NEC)
Vice Chair Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) / Manabu Nakagawa(NTT Communications) / Yuji Nomura(Fujitsu Labs.)
Secretary Yoshikatsu Okazaki(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Osaka Univ.) / Manabu Nakagawa(Keio Univ.) / Yuji Nomura(NEC)
Assistant Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) / Norihiro Fukumoto(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Masaharu Hattori(KDDI R&D Labs.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Communication Quality / Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Study of Computing Resource Allocation Based on Model Predictive Control for Business-Critical Systems in Hybrid Cloud Environment
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) hybrid cloud
Keyword(2) model predictive control
Keyword(3) computing resources
Keyword(4) utilization
1st Author's Name Yukio Ogawa
1st Author's Affiliation Muroran Institute of Technology(Muroran IT)
2nd Author's Name Go Hasegawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Masayuki Murata
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2016-11-24
Paper # NS2016-101
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) NS-322
Page pp.pp.1-6(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-11-17 (NS)