An Approach in using Differentiated Services to Maximize Profit in an Autonomic Computing System

Ecommerce is an area where an Autonomic computing system could be very effectively deployed. The growth of commerce has created demand for services with financial incentives for service providers. Revenues accrue if the admitted requests are processed within the specified deadline and costs are incurred otherwise. In case of heavy load, it will not be possible to process all requests within the deadlines. It is beneficial to concentrate on those requests with which larger profits are associated. This paper describes an approach wherein a fuzzy controller is used which automatically allocates resources for priority requests in proportion to the number of priority requests. This is an illustration of the self-optimizing characteristic of an autonomic computing system.

[1]  Chuang Lin,et al.  Fuzzy control for guaranteeing absolute delays in Web servers , 2005, Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QSHINE'05).

[2]  Yixin Diao,et al.  Using MIMO feedback control to enforce policies for interrelated metrics with application to the Apache Web server , 2002, NOMS 2002. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. ' Management Solutions for the New Communications World'(Cat. No.02CH37327).

[3]  Qian Wang,et al.  Feedback performance control for computer systems: an LPV approach , 2005, Proceedings of the 2005, American Control Conference, 2005..

[4]  Gail E. Kaiser,et al.  A control theory foundation for self-managing computing systems , 2005, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[5]  T.F. Abdelzaher,et al.  Web server QoS management by adaptive content delivery , 1999, 1999 Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service. IWQoS'99. (Cat. No.98EX354).

[6]  Lui Sha,et al.  Queueing model based network server performance control , 2002, 23rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2002. RTSS 2002..

[7]  S. Parekh,et al.  MIMO control of an Apache web server: modeling and controller design , 2002, Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference (IEEE Cat. No.CH37301).

[8]  Chenyang Lu,et al.  An adaptive control framework for QoS guarantees and its application to differentiated caching , 2002, IEEE 2002 Tenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (Cat. No.02EX564).

[9]  Joseph L. Hellerstein,et al.  Using Control Theory to Achieve Service Level Objectives In Performance Management , 2002, Real-Time Systems.

[10]  Cheng-Zhong Xu,et al.  Feedback control approaches for quality of service guarantees in Web servers , 2005, NAFIPS 2005 - 2005 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.

[11]  Yixin Diao,et al.  A Business-Oriented Approach to the Design of Feedback Loops for Performance Management , 2001, DSOM.

[12]  Sang Hyuk Son,et al.  A feedback control approach for guaranteeing relative delays in Web servers , 2001, Proceedings Seventh IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium.

[13]  Yixin Diao,et al.  Optimizing Quality of Service Using Fuzzy Control , 2002, DSOM.

[14]  Qian Wang,et al.  Modeling and Control Design for Performance Management of Web Servers Via an LPV Approach , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

[15]  M. Salehie,et al.  Autonomic computing , 2005, ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes.

[16]  Qian Wang,et al.  A first-principles based LPV modeling and design for performance management of Internet Web servers , 2006, 2006 American Control Conference.

[17]  K. Shin,et al.  Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach , 2002, IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst..

[18]  Yixin Diao,et al.  Using fuzzy control to maximize profits in service level management , 2002, IBM Syst. J..

[19]  Tarek F. Abdelzaher,et al.  Differentiated caching services; a control-theoretical approach , 2001, Proceedings 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

[20]  Tarek F. Abdelzaher,et al.  Design, implementation, and evaluation of differentiated caching services , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

[21]  Joseph L. Hellerstein,et al.  Feedback control of a Lotus Notes server: modeling and control design , 2001, Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference. (Cat. No.01CH37148).

[22]  Chenyang Lu,et al.  Modeling and performance control of Internet servers , 2000, Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.00CH37187).

[23]  Lui Sha,et al.  Feedback control with queueing-theoretic prediction for relative delay guarantees in web servers , 2003, The 9th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2003. Proceedings..