基于效用的超宽带系统带宽分配

把超宽带系统的带宽优化调度表示为一个效用最大化的问题。对于系统的带宽分配,效用函数是服务质量的有效度量,它反映了用户对所分配的资源的满意程度。针对超宽带无线网络带宽分配中链路和用户的集中式算法的复杂性,用分布式方案解决这种问题,以自适应变化的无线网络环境。对系统带宽进行基于效用的分配,满足超宽带系统高速率传输的需要。     

Cost minimization in utility computing systems

Utility computing is a form of computer service whereby the company providing the service charges the users for using the system resources. In this paper, we present system‐optimal and user‐optimal price‐based job allocation schemes for utility computing systems whose objective is to minimize the cost for the users. The system‐optimal scheme provides an allocation of jobs to the computing resources that minimizes the overall cost for executing all the jobs in the system. The user‐optimal scheme provides an allocation that minimizes the cost for individual users in the system for providing fairness. The system‐optimal scheme is formulated as a constraint minimization problem, and the user‐optimal scheme is formulated as a non‐cooperative game. The prices charged by the computing resource owners for executing the users jobs are obtained using a pricing model based on a non‐cooperative bargaining game theory framework. The performance of the studied job allocation schemes is evaluated using simulations with various system loads and configurations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new approach to dynamic bandwidth allocation in Quality of Service networks: Performance and bounds

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources.In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides per-flow bandwidth guarantees, where users subscribe for a guaranteed rate; moreover, the network periodically individuates unused bandwidth and proposes short-term contracts where extra-bandwidth is allocated and guaranteed exclusively to users who can exploit it to transmit at a rate higher than their subscribed rate.To implement this service model we propose a dynamic provisioning architecture for intra-domain Quality of Service networks. We develop a set of dynamic on-line bandwidth allocation algorithms that take explicitly into account traffic statistics and users’ utility functions to increase users’ benefit and network revenue.Further, we propose a mathematical formulation of the extra-bandwidth allocation problem that maximizes network revenue. The solution of this model allows to obtain an upper bound on the performance achievable by any on-line bandwidth allocation algorithm.We demonstrate through simulation in realistic network scenarios that the proposed dynamic allocation algorithms are superior to static provisioning in providing resource allocation both in terms of total accepted load and network revenue, and they approach, in several network scenarios, the ideal performance provided by the mathematical model.     

An improved hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm applied to economic modeling of radio resource allocation

An operational economic model for radio resource allocation in the downlink of a multi-cell WCDMA (acronym for wideband code division multiple access). system is developed in this paper, and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based approach is proposed for its solution. Firstly, we develop an economic model for resource allocation that considers the utility of the provided service, the acceptance probability of the service by the users and the revenue generated for the network operator. Then, we introduce a constrained hybrid PSO algorithm, called improved hybrid particle swarm optimization (I-HPSO), in order to find feasible solutions to the problem. We compare the performance of the I-HPSO algorithm with those achieved by the original HPSO algorithm and by standard metaheuristic optimization techniques, such as hill climbing, simulated annealing, standard PSO and genetic algorithms. The obtained results indicate that the proposed approach achieves superior performance than the conventional techniques.     

潜铺型卫星认知通信中上行链路功率控制

针对卫星通信中存在有效信道远小于注册频率的情况,提出了以潜铺型认知无线电为技术依靠的卫星上行链路功率控制算法。该算法以次要用户所获吞吐量与付出代价之差为效用函数,通过次要用户作为参与者建立的博弈模型进行纳什均衡求解,得到最优功率分配策略。该策略可满足次要用户自身需求,亦不影响主要用户系统正常通信,能有效提高频带使用率。在性能方面,指出了次要用户系统容量和预留信噪比的关系。仿真结果表明,在主要用户系统容许范围内次要用户数量越多则其系统吞吐量和系统收益越大,最后讨论了算法的实现复杂度。     

基于负载均衡的VEC服务器联合计算任务卸载方案

在车载边缘计算(Vehicular Edge Computing,VEC)网络中,车辆计算资源受限导致无法处理海量的计算任务,需要将车载应用产生的计算任务卸载到VEC服务器上进行处理.但车辆的移动性和区域部署的差异性易导致VEC服务器负载不均衡,造成了计算卸载效率和资源利用率降低.为解决该问题,提出一种计算卸载和资源分...     

Congestion control in utility fair networks

This paper deals with a congestion control framework for elastic and real-time traffic, where the user’s application is associated with a utility function. We allow users to have concave as well as non-concave utility functions, and aim at allocating bandwidth such that utility values are shared fairly. To achieve this, we transform all utilities into strictly concave second order utilities and interpret the resource allocation problem as the global optimization problem of maximizing aggregate second order utility. We propose a new fairness criterion, utility proportional fairness, which is characterized by the unique solution to this problem. Our fairness criterion incorporates utility max–min fairness as a limiting case. Based on our analysis, we obtain congestion control laws at links and sources that (i) are linearly stable regardless of the network topology, provided that a bound on round-trip-times is known, (ii) provide a utility proportional fair resource allocation in equilibrium. We further investigate the efficiency of utility fair resource allocations. Our measure of efficiency is defined as the worst case ratio of the total utility of a utility proportional fair rate vector and the maximum possible total utility. We present a generic technique, which allows to obtain upper bounds on the efficiency loss. For special cases, such as linear and concave utility functions, and non-concave utility functions with bounded domain, we explicitly calculate such upper bounds. Then, we study utility fair resource allocations with respect to bandwidth fairness. We derive a fairness metric assessing the aggressiveness of utility functions. This allows us to design fair utility functions for various applications. Finally, we simulate the proposed algorithms using the NS2 simulator.     

Resource allocation optimization for quantitative service differentiation on server clusters

The goal of service differentiation is to provide different service quality levels to meet changing system configuration and resource availability and to satisfy different requirements and expectations of applications and users. In this paper, we investigate the problem of quantitative service differentiation on cluster-based delay-sensitive servers. The goal is to support a system-wide service quality optimization with respect to resource allocation on a computer system while provisioning proportionality fairness to clients. We first propose and promote a square-root proportional differentiation model. Interestingly, both popular delay factors, queueing delay and slowdown, are reciprocally proportional to the allocated resource usage. We formulate the problem of quantitative service differentiation as a generalized resource allocation optimization towards the minimization of system delay, defined as the sum of weighted delay of client requests. We prove that the optimization-based resource allocation scheme essentially provides square-root proportional service differentiation to clients. We then study the problem of service differentiation provisioning from an important relative performance metric, slowdown. We give a closed-form expression of the expected slowdown of a popular heavy-tailed workload model with respect to resource allocation on a server cluster. We design a two-tier resource management framework, which integrates a dispatcher-based node partitioning scheme and a server-based adaptive process allocation scheme. We evaluate the resource allocation framework with different models via extensive simulations. Results show that the square-root proportional model provides service differentiation at a minimum cost of system delay. The two-tier resource allocation framework can provide fine-grained and predictable service differentiation on cluster-based servers.     

Utility-driven solution for optimal resource allocation in computational grid

Optimal resource allocation is a complex undertaking due to large-scale heterogeneity present in computational grid. Traditionally, the decision based on certain cost functions has been used in allocating grid resource as a standard method that does not take resource access cost into consideration. In this paper, the utility function is presented as a promising method for grid resource allocation. To tackle the issue of heterogeneous demand, the user's preference is represented by utility function, which is driven by a user-centric scheme rather than system-centric parameters adopted by cost functions. The goal of each grid user is to maximize its own utility under different constraints. In order to allocate a common resource to multiple bidding users, the optimal solution is achieved by searching the equilibrium point of resource price such that the total demand for a resource exactly equals the total amount available to generate a set of optimal user bids. The experiments run on a Java-based discrete-event grid simulation toolkit called GridSim are made to study characteristics of the utility-driven resource allocation strategy under different constraints. Results show that utility optimization under budget constraint outperforms deadline constraint in terms of time spent, whereas deadline constraint outperforms budget constraint in terms of cost spent. The conclusion indicates that the utility-driven method is a very potential candidate for the optimal resource allocation in computational grid.     

基于差分进化算法的认知无线电频谱分配

针对认知无线电系统中认知用户分配可用频谱问题,提出基于差分进化算法的认知无线电频谱分配算法。利用差分算法设置参数少、寻优能力强、不易于陷入局部最优等特点,得到可以使认知用户平均系统效益最大化的频谱分配方案。仿真结果表明,提出的算法不仅提高了用户平均系统效益,而且缩短了运行时间,提高了频谱分配效率。     

网格环境中信任-激励相容的资源分配机制

在网格环境中,多数节点希望能够更多地使用其他节点的资源,而不愿共享本地的资源.每个理性的用户在追求自身利益最大化的同时,严重影响了协作整体的运行效率.在实际应用中,要吸引资源的拥有者加入资源协作,就必须保证其利益和安全.讨论了资源激励机制和分配机制之间的依赖与制约关系,从经济、信任角度提出自适应的信任-激励相容的资源分配机制.在网格环境中,资源供需的变化会引发价格的浮动,基于经济学的一般均衡理论,给出了资源提供者的动态价格调整策略.提供者可根据当前资源的供需和负载状况,制定自适应的信任-激励相容的分配策略ATIM(adaptive trust-incentive compatible resource allocation),遵循多贡献多分配的原则,激励节点共享出有价值的资源,最大化资源的聚合效用.在CROWN(China research and development environment over wider-area network)平台中评估了ATIM机制的效率和性能.     

Resource allocation on computational grids using a utility model and the knapsack problem

This work introduces a utility model (UM) for resource allocation on computational grids and formulates the allocation problem as a variant of the 0–1 multichoice multidimensional knapsack problem. The notion of task-option utility is introduced, and it is used to effect allocation policies. We present a variety of allocation policies, which are expressed as functions of metrics that are both intrinsic and external to the task and resources. An external user-defined credit-value metric is shown to allow users to intervene in the allocation of urgent or low priority tasks. The strategies are evaluated in simulation against random workloads as well as those drawn from real systems. We measure the sensitivity of the UM-derived schedules to variations in the allocation policies and their corresponding utility functions. The UM allocation strategy is shown to optimally allocate resources congruent with the chosen policies.     

基于多对一Gale-Shapley算法的D2D通信资源分配

针对D2D通信复用异构蜂窝网络上行信道产生的干扰问题和频谱资源优化问题进行研究,提出一种基于多对一Gale-Shapley算法的D2D通信资源分配方案。本方案允许多个D2D用户共享一个蜂窝用户信道资源,通过设置信干噪比（SINR）门限保证用户的通信服务质量（QOS）。根据信道分配情况,构建D2D用户和信道的偏好列表,最大化系统总容量。仿真结果表明,该方案收敛较快,复杂度较低,能够有效保证用户的通信服务质量,系统总容量接近最优解。本研究为实现D2D用户和蜂窝用户的频谱资源共享,提高频谱利用率提供了一种有效方案。     

基于博弈论的大规模MIMO系统中导频分配方法

针对大规模MIMO系统中存在的导频污染问题,提出将博弈论应用于导频分配的方案。该方案构造了基于最小化系统干扰的博弈效用函数,此函数考虑了小区中用户经受的干扰和对其邻近小区用户造成的干扰。同时,设计了该博弈的潜在函数并证明该博弈过程是一个潜在博弈模型。仿真结果表明,在考虑所有小区导频复用的情况下,相比于传统的随机导频分配方案,所提方案可以明显地降低系统内的干扰,且性能与最优导频分配性能近似。     

Cooperative game-based distributed resource allocation in horizontal dynamic cloud federation platform

Distributed resource allocation is a very important and complex problem in emerging horizontal dynamic cloud federation (HDCF) platforms, where different cloud providers (CPs) collaborate dynamically to gain economies of scale and enlargements of their virtual machine (VM) infrastructure capabilities in order to meet consumer requirements. HDCF platforms differ from the existing vertical supply chain federation (VSCF) models in terms of establishing federation and dynamic pricing. There is a need to develop algorithms that can capture this complexity and easily solve distributed VM resource allocation problem in a HDCF platform. In this paper, we propose a cooperative game-theoretic solution that is mutually beneficial to the CPs. It is shown that in non-cooperative environment, the optimal aggregated benefit received by the CPs is not guaranteed. We study two utility maximizing cooperative resource allocation games in a HDCF environment. We use price-based resource allocation strategy and present both centralized and distributed algorithms to find optimal solutions to these games. Various simulations were carried out to verify the proposed algorithms. The simulation results demonstrate that the algorithms are effective, showing robust performance for resource allocation and requiring minimal computation time.     

基于雾计算的计算资源分配方案

雾计算可以为用户提供近距离的数据存储、计算和其他服务，因此雾计算中的任务调度和资源分配已经成为一个新的研究热点。考虑终端用户和雾设备通常处于一种相对开放的状态，扩展了雾计算的体系结构，提出一种开放式雾计算环境中基于稳定匹配的计算资源分配方案，利用雾网络中动态的计算资源协同为用户提供计算服务并收取计算收益，同时终端用户向雾服务器提交任务请求并支付一定的费用。基于稳定匹配的思想，利用子任务的优先级列表、子任务和计算服务设备的偏好列表解决子任务与计算服务设备的分配问题，保证任务的完成时间和计算服务设备的收益。通过实验对方案性能进行了分析，实验结果表明该方案的资源分配时间相对稳定，且在执行雾计算任务时延以及任务违规率上都优于SGA算法和ACOSA算法。     

Utility-based downlink power allocation in multicell wireless packet networks

This paper introduces a utility-based radio resource management technique in multicell wireless packet networks. In terms of allocation of base station (BS) downlink transmit power and assignment of resource to users in each cell, we formulate a problem of maximizing system utility which is defined as the sum of cell utilities. The problem, however, is not solvable due to its non-convex property. Thus, we propose a heuristic algorithm based on an intuition obtained from analyzing a simple two-cell problem. Though the heuristic approach also incurs signaling overhead for power coordination between neighboring base stations, it is much less than that of the original approach. Simulation results show the performance of our proposed algorithm compared with two competitive schemes: optimal and maximum power allocation schemes. As expected, the optimal allocation scheme shows the best performance but can not be employed in a real network due to intractable complexity. Our heuristic algorithm performs reasonably well with very low complexity.     

Data traffic scheduling algorithm for multiuser OFDM system with adaptive modulation considering fairness among users

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is regarded as a very promising digital modulation technique for achieving high rate transmission. However, the increasing number of wireless data users and the deployment of broadband wireless networks have brought about issues of fairness among users and system throughput. In this paper, we propose an efficient scheduling algorithm to maximize system throughput while providing a level of fairness among users for non-real-time data traffic in the downlink of a multiuser OFDM system. We establish a practical scheduling procedure to implement our scheme considering fairness among users and also formulate the resource allocation problem for rate, power, and subcarrier allocation as an integer program that maximizes system throughput. Next, we present a computationally efficient heuristic algorithm for a problem based on the Lagrangian relaxation procedure. Through the computing simulation, we show that the proposed scheme performs better than other schemes in terms of both system throughput and fairness among users.     

Interference-Based Dynamic Pricing for WCDMA Networks Using Neurodynamic Programming

We study the problem of optimal integrated dynamic pricing and radio resource management, in terms of resource allocation and call admission control, in a WCDMA network. In such interference-limited network, one's resource usage also degrades the utility of others. A new parameter noise rise factor, which indicates the amount of interference generated by a call, is suggested as a basis for setting price to make users accountable for the congestion externality of their usage. The methods of dynamic programming (DP) are unsuitable for problems with large state spaces due to the associated ldquocurse of dimensionality.rdquo To overcome this, we solve the problem using a simulation-based neurodynamic programming (NDP) method with an action-dependent approximation architecture. Our results show that the proposed optimal policy provides significant average reward and congestion improvement over conventional policies that charge users based on their load factor.     

协作式云资源博弈分配

针对用户对云资源的异构性需求和竞争问题,提出了一种协作式资源分配博弈策略。建立了资源分配的协作式博弈模型,定义了协作博弈的用户效用函数和评估函数,证明了在该效用函数下协作博弈存在唯一Nash均衡,并讨论了用户组建联盟对协作特征函数和整体效用的影响。实验结果表明,在该协作博弈策略下,个体用户通过组建联盟集体出价的方式,能够为联盟用户带来更大效用,以收敛方式实现Pareto改进。