Mathematical Programming Approach for Revenue Maximization in Cloud Federations

Mathematical Programming Approach for
Revenue Maximization in Cloud Federations

Abstract— Mathematical Programming Approach for Revenue Maximization in Cloud Federations. The benefits of cloud federation for cloud providers. Outsourcing and insourcing are explored as means to maximize the revenues of the providers involved in the federation. An exact method using a linear integer program is proposed to optimize the partitioning of the incoming workload across the federation members. A pricing model is suggested to enable providers to set their offers dynamically and achieve highest revenues. The conditions leading to highest gains are identified and the benefits of cloud federation are quantified. CLOUD computing is a large scale distributed solution for providing compute, storage and communications resources and services on demand through data centers. < Final Year Projects 2016 > Cloud computing has advantages over traditional computing such as avoiding capital investments and operational expenses for users through pay-as-you-go metered services and resource multiplexing and sharing.