Optimizing Cost for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds

Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, Wei Du, Xiaoming Fu

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Abstract

Geo-distributed clouds provide an intriguing platform to deploy online social network (OSN) services. To leverage the potential of clouds, a major concern of OSN providers is optimizing the monetary cost spent in using cloud resources while considering other important requirements, including providing satisfactory quality of service (QoS) and data availability to OSN users. In this paper, we study the problem of cost optimization for the dynamic OSN on multiple geo-distributed clouds over consecutive time periods while meeting predefined QoS and data availability requirements. We model the cost, the QoS, as well as the data availability of the OSN, formulate the problem, and design an algorithm named {tt cosplay}. We carry out extensive experiments with a large-scale real-world Twitter trace over 10 geo-distributed clouds all across the US. Our results show that, while always ensuring the QoS and the data availability as required, {tt cosplay} can reduce much more one-time cost than the state-of-the-art methods, and it can also significantly reduce the accumulative cost when continuously evaluated over 48 months, with OSN dynamics comparable to real-world cases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number6924815
Pages (from-to)99-112
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • online social network
  • optimization models and methods
  • performance analysis and evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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