Adaptive Service Infrastructure

Demand for Internet services can vary over a wide range over many different timescales. It is not cost-effective to statically provision the service infrastructure with enough resources to meet service level requirements under the worst-case demand. Therefore, services that must meet specific service level objectives must be deployed on an adaptive service  infrastructure that can allocate and dynamically adjust the amount of resources at the right place and time to meet requirements at minimal cost.

The adaptive infrastructure must control service placement, demand routing and resource allocation in an integrated way to permit valuable trade-offs across their solutions. We study the dynamic characteristics of distributed demand to examine their implications on policies for service placement, load balancing and resource allocation.

Papers and Reports

• Jose Renato Santos, Koustuv Dasgupta, G. (John) Janakiraman, Yoshio Turner, "Understanding Service Demand for Adaptive Allocation of Distributed Resources," Tech. Rep. HPL-2002-85, HP Laboratories, April 2002 (also appeared in IEEE Globecom 2002 Global Internet Symposium, November 2002, Taiwan).

Presentations

• "Understanding Service Demand for Adaptive Allocation of Distributed Resources," presentation at IEEE Globecom 2002 Global Internet Symposium, November 2002, Taiwan.