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Research on resource allocation for multi-tier web applications in a virtualization environment

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Resource allocation for multi-tier web applications in virtualization environments is one of the most important problems in autonomous computing. On one hand, the more resources that are provisioned to a multitier web application, the easier it is to meet service level objectives (SLO). On the other hand, the virtual machine which hosts the multi-tier web application needs to be consolidated as much as possible in order to maintain high resource utilization. This paper presents an adaptive resource controller which consists of a feedback utilization controller and an auto-regressive and moving average model (ARMA)-based model estimator. It can meet application-level quality of service (QoS) goals while achieving high resource utilization. To evaluate the proposed controllers, simulations are performed on a testbed simulating a virtual data center using Xen virtual machines. Experimental results indicate that the controllers can improve CPU utilization and make the best tradeoff between resource utilization and performance for multi-tier web applications.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China

    Shuguo Yang

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Shuguo Yang is a professor of the Mathematics and Physics Collage of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China. He recevied his BSc from Harbin Normal University in July 1992, and his MSc from Harbin Engineering University in April 2000. He got his PhD from Harbin Engineering University in July 2003. He has published over 70 journal papers, and edited five books. His research interests are cloud computing, digital image processing, network security and multimedia security technology.

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Yang, S. Research on resource allocation for multi-tier web applications in a virtualization environment. Front. Comput. Sci. China 5, 506–512 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-011-0127-6

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