Xue, James W. J., Chester, Adam P., He, Ligang and Jarvis, Stephen A., 1970- (2008) Dynamic resource allocation in enterprise systems. In: 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Melbourne, Australia , Dec 08-10, 2008. Published in: 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008) pp. 203-212.

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Abstract

It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total revenue by making efficient use of these resources. In this paper, multi-tiered enterprise systems are modelled as multi-class closed queueing networks, with each network station corresponding to each application tier. In such queueing networks, bottlenecks can limit overall system performance, and thus should be avoided. We propose a bottleneck-aware server switching policy, which responds to system bottlenecks and switches servers to alleviate these problems as necessary. The switching engine compares the benefits and penalties of a potential switch, and makes a decision as to whether it is likely to be worthwhile switching. We also propose a simple admission control scheme, in addition to the switching policy, to deal with system overloading and optimise the total revenue of multiple applications in the hosting centre. Performance evaluation has been done via simulation and results are compared with those from a proportional switching policy and also a system that implements no switching policy. The experimental results show that the combination of the bottleneck-aware switching policy and the admission control scheme consistently outperforms the other two policies in terms of revenue contribution.

Item Type:	Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science Faculty of Science > Centre for Scientific Computing
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Resource allocation, Dynamic programming, System design, Management information systems
Journal or Publication Title:	14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008)
Publisher:	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN:	978-0-7695-3434-3
Editor:	Hobbs, M and Xiang, Y and Zhou, W
Date:	2008
Number of Pages:	10
Page Range:	pp. 203-212
Identification Number:	10.1109/ICPADS.2008.104
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Title of Event:	14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Melbourne, Australia
Date(s) of Event:	Dec 08-10, 2008
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/28544

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