Resource Negotiation Game for Cloud Networks with Limited Resources

Abstract

In this paper, we model the negotiation process of creating a pool of leased but unused resources among an Infrastructure Provider (InP) and its customers Virtual Network Operators (VNOs) by using a repeated game. InP offers VNOs compensation for returning unused leased resources, with the objective of creating the mentioned pool of resources to allocate to new VNOs when resource requests arrive from them. Through this negotiation, InP avoids SLA violation penalty induced by arbitration and migration and VNOs receive compensations, thus both are financially benefitted. We numerically evaluate the improvement in the utilities for InP and VNOs provided by our proposed two strategies, which outperforms a conventional strategy.