Virtual machine provisioning and allocation in a cloud environment using improved auction based model

Abstract

VM provisioning is one of the key aspect of infrastructure as a cloud. The provisioning and allocation of VM must be economical for both the user and the provider. There were many schemes proposed by researchers. But, it is still a challenge for the providers to make efficient use of the available resources. Here, we have studied various techniques applied by the providers for VM provisioning and allocation. We proposed a new provisioning and allocation method for efficient utilization of resources.