Provided by:
Imperial College London
Topic:
Cloud
Format:
WORD
Resource allocation in the cloud is usually driven by performance predictions, such as estimates of the future incoming load to the servers or of the Quality-of-Service (QoS) offered by applications to end users. In this context, characterizing web workload fluctuations in an accurate way is fundamental to understand how to provision cloud resources under time-varying traffic intensities. In this paper, the authors investigate the Markovian Arrival Processes (MAP) and the related MAP/MAP/1 queueing model as a tool for performance prediction of servers deployed in the cloud. MAPs are a special class of Markov models used as a compact description of the time-varying characteristics of workloads.
