@inproceedings{b4c445f4731d4866b9b7467ca65aa59f,
title = "Burstable Instances for Clouds: Performance Modeling, Equilibrium Analysis, and Revenue Maximization",
abstract = "Leading cloud providers recently introduced a new instance type named burstable instances to better match the time-varying workloads of tenants and further reduce their costs. In the research community, however, little has been done to understand burstable instances from a theoretical perspective. This paper presents the first unified framework to model, analyze, and optimize the operation of burstable instances. Specifically, we model the resource provisioning of burstable instances in different service classes, identify key performance metrics, and derive the performance given the resource provisioning decisions. We then characterize the equilibrium behind tenants' responses to the prices offered for different burstable instance service classes, taking into account the impact of tenants' actions on the performance achieved by each service class. In addition, we investigate how a cloud provider can leverage the knowledge of this equilibrium to find the prices that maximize its total revenue. Finally, we validate our framework on real traces and demonstrate its usage to price a public cloud.",
keywords = "burstable instances, cloud, equilibrium, revenue maximization",
author = "Yuxuan Jiang and Mohammad Shahrad and David Wentzlaff and Tsang, {Danny H.K.} and Carlee Joe-Wong",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2019 ; Conference date: 29-04-2019 Through 02-05-2019",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1109/INFOCOM.2019.8737634",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1576--1584",
booktitle = "INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications",
address = "United States",
}