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An efficient resource provisioning approach for analyzing cloud workloads: a metaheuristic-based clustering approach

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With the recent advancements in Internet-based computing models, the usage of cloud-based applications to facilitate daily activities is significantly increasing and is expected to grow further. Since the submitted workloads by users to use the cloud-based applications are different in terms of quality of service (QoS) metrics, it requires the analysis and identification of these heterogeneous cloud workloads to provide an efficient resource provisioning solution as one of the challenging issues to be addressed. In this study, we present an efficient resource provisioning solution using metaheuristic-based clustering mechanism to analyze cloud workloads. The proposed workload clustering approach used a combination of the genetic algorithm and fuzzy C-means technique to find similar clusters according to the user’s QoS requirements. Then, we used a gray wolf optimizer technique to make an appropriate scaling decision to provide the cloud resources for serving of cloud workloads. Besides, we design an extended framework to show interaction between users, cloud providers, and resource provisioning broker in the workload clustering process. The simulation results obtained under real workloads indicate that the proposed approach is efficient in terms of CPU utilization, elasticity, and the response time compared with the other approaches.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani & Ali Shahidinejad

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Ghobaei-Arani, M., Shahidinejad, A. An efficient resource provisioning approach for analyzing cloud workloads: a metaheuristic-based clustering approach. J Supercomput 77, 711–750 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-020-03296-w

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