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Quantifying the Performance Impact of Overbooking Virtualized Resources
David Hoeflin, Paul Reeser
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2012 Workshop on Clouds, Networks,
2012.
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{Cloud services are compelling to customers from many perspectives, but the immense benefits come at a price. Along with reliability and security, performance is the Achilles heel of Cloud services. In order to make Cloud services profitable, the Cloud service provider obviously must overbook physical resources. But at what level of resource overbooking (OB) does performance begin to suffer? The answer, of course, depends on many factors. In this paper, we present a simple analytic model to quantify the performance impact of overbooking virtualized resources as a function of the relevant environment and usage parameters. We then validate those analytic modeling results against simulation, lab tests, and field data. Finally, we propose a simple means for measuring the model parameters in the field, in order to use the analytic model to determine allowable OB factors (engineering rules) while still meeting performance constraints and service-level agreements.}
IP Backbone Network Reliability and Performance Analysis Method and Apparatus,
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This invention provides a tool for reliability evaluation and performance analysis of an IP backbone network by using the network packet loss ratio as the main measurement. A queuing model and algorithm is presented for calculating packet loss at congested interfaces or links. A reliability model is presented for considering network hardware component failures such as router failures, ATM switch failures, and physical link failures. Based on the measurement and models presented, a network reliability and performance (NetRAP) apparatus calculates IP network reliability and performance measurements. The NetRAP apparatus uses the network topology, a traffic matrix, and the reliability parameters of a network as inputs and calculates the network packet loss ratio and sigma score, and provides a list of heavily congested links under non-failure or different single failure conditions.