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Joint optimization of routing and VM resource allocation for multimedia cloud

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Abstract

With the development of cloud computing, cloud data centers provide powerful platforms for multimedia services. Still, QoS routing and resource allocation are two main challenges to optimize the multimedia services. The QoS routing affects the transmission time, while the resource allocation determines the resource utilization in cloud. In this paper, we introduce a cloud network model. Based on the model, we analyze the transmission delay among data centers, and propose a QoS-SPA routing algorithm. Furthermore, we study the optimal VM allocation problem with the objective to minimize the resource cost subject to the network transmission delay among data centers. As the optimization problem is NP-hard, we propose an efficient heuristic, price-performance ratio-based heuristic algorithm (PPR-HA), to achieve a sub-optimal solution. The extensive experimental results demonstrate that joint optimization of routing and VM with QoS-SPA and PPR-HA can effectively reduce the transmission delay among data centers and improve the resource utilization in cloud.

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We thank anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and comments.

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The research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 61631016 and 61472389).

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    Wenqiang Gong

  2. The Key Laboratory of Media Audio and Video (Ministry of Education), Communication University of China, Beijing, China

    Jinyao Yan

  3. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

    Xiaoming Nan

  4. The Zhengzhou University, Henan, China

    Yun Tie

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Gong, W., Yan, J., Nan, X. et al. Joint optimization of routing and VM resource allocation for multimedia cloud. Multimedia Systems 25, 355–369 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-019-00611-1

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