A Resource Auction Based Allocation Mechanism in the Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

In this paper, certain microeconomic methods are introduced to solve the problem of management and allocation of resources in the cloud environment. By adding the idea of batch matching into the reverse auction, a reverse batch matching auction mechanism is proposed. Based on the auction, the strategy of twice-punishment and the pursuit of service quality can effectively prevent the occurrence of trading fraud. Three evaluation criteria, including the market efficiency, user satisfaction and service quality, are used as the optimization objectives, and the immune evolutionary algorithm is applied to find the optimal resource allocation solution. The simulation results have shown that the proposed mechanism is both feasible and effective.