A fuzzy modeling based dynamic resource allocation strategy in service grid

Abstract

One of the major challenges in service grid is to guarantee the promised quality of service (QoS) for all the admitted users or applications, while maximizing the resource utilization through dynamic resource sharing. An efficient resource allocation method should ensure the service QoS and balance the load among service grid nodes which are often highly dynamic, heterogeneous and linked by wide-area network. In this paper, a new dynamic resource allocation method is presented and analyzed based on fuzzy modeling to solve the adaptation between heterogeneous applications with multiple QoS requirements and grid resource. Simulations in service grid with heterogeneous QoS requirements reveal that the proposed dynamic resource allocation method can distribute most suitable resource among the different service quickly and sensitively as the service QoS demand varies under the constraint of achieving maximum utilization of grid resources.