Improving revenue for reliability-aware VDC embedding in a software-defined data center

It is a challenge to improve utilization of physical resources when allocating resources for virtual data centers (VDCs). In this work we proposed two reliability-aware VDC embedding methods NMP and NMPD. To reduce embedding cost, the proposals try to split VMs into clusters based on topological potential and modularity and assign each cluster to a server. Via simulations, we show that NMP can accept more VDCs and help InPs improve the revenue. Although accepting a little less VDCs, NMPD can reduce resources occupied by VDCs and alleviate the congestion of core links.