Optimal resource allocation model and algorithm for elastic enterprise applications migration to the cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing has been widely used in various industries in recent years. However, when migrating enterprise applications into the cloud, enterprise users face a problem with minimizing migration time and cloud resource providers face a dilemma of resource allocation problem, with the objective of maximizing the migration utility of enterprise users while minimizing the cost of cloud resource providers. In order to achieve them, this paper considered cloud migration objectives including cloud migration time, cloud migration utility, and cloud data center cost, and proposed a resource allocation model for enterprise applications migration into the cloud. The model is divided into two stages: the bandwidth allocation for enterprise applications migration to the cloud and the physical resource allocation of cloud resource providers for enterprise applications deployment into the cloud. In the first stage, we aim to minimize the cloud migration time for enterprise applications, and propose a scheme of bandwidth allocation for each component of applications. In the second stage, we present the resource allocation of cloud resource providers and propose a gradient-based algorithm which can achieve optimal resource allocation. Finally, we give some numerical simulation results to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.