<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Efficiently provisioning the resources in a large computing domain like cloud is challenging due to uncertainty in resource demands and computation ability of the cloud resources. Inefficient provisioning of the resources leads to several issues in terms of the drop in Quality of Service (QoS), violation of Service Level Agreement (SLA), over-provisioning of resources, under-provisioning of resources and so on. The main objective of the paper is to formulate optimal resource provisioning policies by efficiently handling the uncertainties in the jobs and resources with the application of Neutrosophic Soft-Set (NSS) and Fuzzy Neutrosophic Soft-Set (FNSS). The performance of the proposed work compared to the existing fuzzy auto scaling work achieves the throughput of 80% with the learning rate of 75% on homogeneous and heterogeneous workloads by considering the RUBiS, RUBBoS, and Olio benchmark applications.</p></abstract>

Efficiently provisioning the resources in a large computing domain like cloud is challenging due to uncertainty in resource demands and computation ability of the cloud resources. Inefficient provisioning of the resources leads to several issues in terms of the drop in Quality of Service (QoS), violation of Service Level Agreement (SLA), over-provisioning of resources, under-provisioning of resources and so on. The main objective of the paper is to formulate optimal resource provisioning policies by efficiently handling the uncertainties in the jobs and resources with the application of Neutrosophic Soft-Set (NSS) and Fuzzy Neutrosophic Soft-Set (FNSS). The performance of the proposed work compared to the existing fuzzy auto scaling work achieves the throughput of 80% with the learning rate of 75% on homogeneous and heterogeneous workloads by considering the RUBiS, RUBBoS, and Olio benchmark applications.

Uncertainty Aware Resource Provisioning Framework for Cloud Using Expected 3-SARSA Learning Agent: NSS and FNSS Based Approach

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Efficiently provisioning the resources in a large computing domain like cloud is challenging due to uncertainty in resource demands and computation ability of...

Uncertainty Aware Resource Provisioning Framework for Cloud Using Expected 3-SARSA Learning Agent: NSS and FNSS Based Approach

Published Online: Sep 26, 2019

Page range: 94 - 117

Received: Dec 30, 2018

Accepted: May 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2019-0028

Keywords
SARSA (State-Action Reward-State-Action), Resource provisioning, Uncertainty, Soft-set, elasticity, throughput, learning rate

© 2019 K. Bhargavi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Uncertainty Aware Resource Provisioning Framework for Cloud Using Expected 3-SARSA Learning Agent: NSS and FNSS Based Approach

Published Online: Sep 26, 2019

Page range: 94 - 117

Received: Dec 30, 2018

Accepted: May 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2019-0028

KeywordsSARSA (State-Action Reward-State-Action), Resource provisioning, Uncertainty, Soft-set, elasticity, throughput, learning rate

© 2019 K. Bhargavi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
SARSA (State-Action Reward-State-Action), Resource provisioning, Uncertainty, Soft-set, elasticity, throughput, learning rate