Cloud QoS Scaling by Fuzzy Logic

Abstract

One of the biggest advantages of cloud infrastructures is the elasticity. Cloud services are monitored and based on the resource utilization and performance load, they get scaled up or down, by provision or deprovision of cloud resources. The goal is to guarantee the customers an acceptable performance with a minimum of resources. Such Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics are stated in a contract, called Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiated between customer and provider. The approach of this paper shows that with additional imprecise information (e.g. expected daytime/weektime performance) modeled with fuzzy logic and used in a behavior, load and performance prediction model, the up and down scaling mechanism of a cloud service can be optimized. Evaluation results confirm, that using this approach, SLA violation can be minimized.

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