Multicommodity games in public-cloud markets considering subadditive resource demands

G. Kesidis, N. Nasiriani, Y. Shan, B. Urgaonkar, I. Lambadaris

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Abstract

In still developing, public cloud-computing markets, prices for virtual machine (VM) offerings fluctuate, and not just for spot/preemptible instances. Moreover, some (particularly derivative) providers allow for fine-grain initial resource provisioning and dynamic reprovisioning of VMs. In this preliminary study, we consider long-lived tenants of a public cloud under resource-based service-level agreements. For noncooperative aggregative multicommodity (plural IT resource) games among them, conditions are established for an interior Nash equilibrium and an exact potential (giving convergence to Nash equilibrium). Also discussed are extensions to plural IT resource demands that are subadditive in workload intensity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages654-658
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538627846
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 20 2017
Event2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: May 1 2017May 4 2017

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017

Other

Other2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period5/1/175/4/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Control and Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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