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Combined Cloud: A Mixture of Voluntary Cloud and Reserved Instance Marketplace

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Voluntary cloud is a new paradigm of cloud computing. It provides an alternative selection along with some well-provisioned clouds. However, for the uncertain time span that participants share their computing resources in voluntary cloud, there are some challenging issues, i.e., fluctuation, under-capacity and low-benefit. In this paper, an architecture is first proposed based on Bittorrent protocol. In this architecture, resources could be reserved or requested from Reserved Instance Marketplace and could be accessed with a lower price in a short circle. Actually, these resources could replenish the inadequate resource pool and relieve the fluctuation and under-capacity issue in voluntary cloud. Then, the fault rate of each node is used to evaluate the uncertainty of its sharing time. By leveraging a linear prediction model, it is enabled by a distribution function which is used for evaluating the computing capacity of the system. Moreover, the cost optimization problem is investigated and a computational method is presented to solve the low-benefit issue in voluntary cloud. At last, the system performance is validated by two sets of simulations. And the experimental results show the effectiveness of our computational method for resource reservation optimization.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210046, China

    Wei Shen & Wan-Chun Dou

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Fan Wu

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, TX, 75080, U.S.A.

    Shaojie Tang

  4. School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, U.K.

    Qiang Ni

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Shen, W., Dou, WC., Wu, F. et al. Combined Cloud: A Mixture of Voluntary Cloud and Reserved Instance Marketplace. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 31, 1110–1123 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-016-1686-7

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