Dynamic bandwidth allocation& guarantee for virtualized networks in cloud

Abstract

Among all SLAs(Service Level Agreements) about network resources in the cloud, a critical problem would be achieving bandwidth guarantee under all communication environment (e.g., when misbehaved VMs exist) while keeping acceptable bandwidth utility and system scalability. In this paper, we present an architecture of dynamic bandwidth allocation and guarantee on resource fairness, to provide network performance isolation and protocol independent bandwidth guarantees. In this paper, we first discuss the business model of bandwidth guarantee for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, and a bandwidth allocation algorithm based on redefined fairness model is proposed and realized under the novel architecture, and finally experiment shows satisfying results under various communication scenarios.