Resource Management in Clouds: Survey and Research Challenges

作者：Jennings, Brendan^*; Stadler, Rolf

来源：Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2015, 23(3): 567-619.

DOI：10.1007/s10922-014-9307-7

• Cloud computing
• Resource allocation
• Resource management
• Virtualization
• Survey

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the variability and unpredictability of the load; as well as the range of objectives of the different actors in a cloud ecosystem. Consequently, both academia and industry began significant research efforts in this area. In this paper, we survey the recent literature, covering 250+ publications, and highlighting key results. We outline a conceptual framework for cloud resource management and use it to structure the state-of-the-art review. Based on our analysis, we identify five challenges for future investigation. These relate to: providing predictable performance for cloud-hosted applications; achieving global manageability for cloud systems; engineering scalable resource management systems; understanding economic behavior and cloud pricing; and developing solutions for the mobile cloud paradigm .

• 出版日期2015-7