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CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNIQUES HELPS TO MEET QOS: A

STUDY
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SNEHAL A.NARALE, 2P.K.BUTEY
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Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, Dharampeth M.P.Deo
Memorial Science College, Nagpur,India
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Associate Professor,Head, Dept of Computer Science,
Kamla Nehru College,Nagpur,India.
E-mail: 1snehal.narale2012@gmail.com, 2buteypradeep@yahoo.co.in

Abstract- Cloud Computing is a computing model which facilitate expedient, on-demand network access to a collective
configurable computing resources like networks, servers, applications and services that can be quickly provisioned and
released. The resource provision is an imperative aspect of cloud computing model to provide the QoS(quality of service) in
cloud computing. It is use as an alternative of SLA (Service Level Agreement). Users must use different techniques/methods
like dynamic resource provisioning, scheduling, admission control and traffic control. Resource Provisioning means the wide
range of software deployment and run time management of the software resources and hardware resources. Resource
provisioning used for ensuring guaranteed performance for applications that are used in cloud computing. Admission control
methods are use to test whether or not to admit a set of services to the cloud and scheduling is used to increased the resource
utilization without affecting the services provided by the cloud .In this paper we study the scheduling techniques and its
types, admission control and resource provisioning techniques to enhance the QoS in cloud computing.

Keywords- Cloud Computing, Resource Provisioning, Admission Control, Elasticity, Scheduling, QOS.

I. INTRODUCTION using the Programming language or tools supported

Cloud computing is a model for facilitate network on
demand from anywhere conveniently access to share
pool of configurable computing resources like
network, server, storage, applications and services
[1]. Cloud computing technology has potential to
enhance collaboration, agility, availability, scaling
and provide many opportunities for cost reduction
through different optimization and effective
computing technology. Cloud Computing is the
familiar catchphrase in today’s Information
Technology world. Cloud computing platforms are
rapidly capable that were used for deploying different
applications in many contexts [1]. The cloud is
discriminating from the other traditional technology
as it has infinite amount of capacity related to
resources that are offered by cloud platforms with
very competitive rate (e.g. CPU, storage, Network,
infrastructure). With this advantage of resource
capacity use of cloud computing help to eliminate the
necessity for the installation of infrastructure requires
for computing takes several months. So many of the
Start-up Companies does not want to invest on the
infrastructure because the resources are available in
the cloud [2]. The Cloud Computing paradigm is
composed of three service models namely Software
as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS model enables
the customer to use the provider application hosted on
the cloud infrastructure. In this model the customer
does not have any control over the underlying Cloud
infrastructure but has little control over application
configuration settings. PaaS model provides the
competence to the customer to deploy the customer
created applications onto the Cloud Infrastructure
by the Cloud Provider [1, 2]. Without managing the
cloud infrastructure such as network and storage the
Consumer has control over the organized
applications. IaaS model allows the customer to
provision processing, storage, networks and other
important software where a customer can deploy
software such as operating system and applications.
While studying cloud computing amongst the
different characteristics like scalability, availability,
reliability, flexibility, QoS. The most important
parameter that we must need to focus is QoS. Cloud
computing provides different types of resources like
hardware and software as services via internet. Task
scheduling is the key role in cloud computing. Cloud
computing uses the concept of virtualization, as the
tasks in cloud require minimum completion time,
better performance, utilization of resources and quick
response time. For task allocation cloud provides
virtual machine which is scalable but scheduling
them is a major problem. Different types of task
scheduling algorithms are used in cloud computing to
provide QoS. These scheduling algorithms focus on
resource management, response time, load balancing
and performance [3].
In our research paper we study what is QoS and what
are different techniques of cloud computing that will
help us to enhance QoS. First we focus on what is
exactly quality of service.
1.1 WHAT IS QOS?
Quality of service is the ability to provide precedence
to different applications, users, or data flows, or to
pledge a certain level of performance. QoS criterions

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are frequent and are extremely dependent of the
application Throughput, Impediment, Loss rate. The
major difficult problem in cloud computing
(distributed system) is resource provisioning [3,4].
Resource provisioning is technique used for the
assortment consumption and run-time organization of
software (e.g. database management servers, load
balancers) and hardware resources (e.g. CPU, storage,
and network) for ensuring guaranteed performance
for applications. In this research paper we discuss
major techniques like scheduling, admission control
and dynamic resource provisioning that will help to
provide QoS in cloud computing and it also help to
enhance QoS.
II. TECHNIQUES USED TO MEET
REQUIREMENT OF QOS
2.1 RESOURCE PROVISIONING
The most demanding problem in distributed system is
Resource Provisioning. As cloud computing is a
distributed computing it has to face the same
important problem of resource provisioning. The
resource provisioning techniques are of two types
first is static and second is dynamic with its
advantages and flaws. This resource provisioning
technique is used to meet Quality of Service (QoS)
parameters like availability, throughput, response
time, security, reliability etc [4].
Cloud Computing facilitate users to get resources
dynamically and elastically. From service providers
perspective a major challenge in resource
provisioning technique is to maximize the resource
utilization and from users perspective minimize the
financial cost required for right amount of resources
utilize for the execution of the work[4,5] .Cloud
computing is one of the solution for it. By
considering SLA, resource provisioning providing
services to the cloud users. This is preliminary
concurrence between the cloud users and cloud
service providers which ensures Quality of Service
(QoS) parameters like performance, availability,
reliability, response time etc. Based on the
application needs Static Provisioning/Dynamic
Provisioning and Static/Dynamic Allocation of
resources have to be made in order to efficiently
make use of the resources without violating SLA and
meeting these QoS parameters[6]. In excess of and
underneath provisioning of resources must be keep
away. Another important point that we have to be
considered is consumption of power in cloud
computing. cloud computing uses different
parameters for resource provisioning like response
time, cost minimization, profits maximization, fault
tolerant, minimize SLA violation and reduced power
consumption[5,6].
Based on the applications requirement there are three
types of resource provisioning techniques like static
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dynamic and user self rovisioning. The resource
provisioning types are given below.
 Static Provisioning: it is use for which are
predictable and generally unchanging
demands/workloads for applications. It is
possible to use “static provisioning"
effectively.
 Dynamic Provisioning: It is use when the
application requirement may change means
demand is always changing it is not fixed or
predictable as static provisioning By using
dynamic Provisioning, the provider allocates
more resources as per the requirement of the
application/user and remove them if they are
not needed. Dynamic provisioning used for
creating hybrid cloud[6].
 User Self-provisioning: With user self
provisioning (also known as cloud selfservice),
the customer purchases resources from the
cloud provider through a web form.
2.2 ADMISSION CONTROL
Cloud provides more and more distributed
applications as being composition of virtualized
servers. For example, in an IaaS, each service is
deployed as a set of virtualized components, i.e.
Virtual Machines (VMs), which are activated
according to their workflow pattern each time a
request arrives from the end users. Inside the cloud
the use of virtualization techniques are to permit for
faultless location of each component of the
distributed service. It also makes easier the process of
horizontal elasticity. the process of horizontal
elasticity add/remove extra duplicate VMs for each
component during runtime to maintain a certain level
of performance for the overall service when there are
variations in the workload.
The main purpose of admission control is to provide
strong performance. At admission control time, the
Infrastructure Provider (IP) must consider not only
the fundamental computational and networking
necessities but also the extra requirements that may
be required to be added at runtime so it becomes
elastic[7]. In many cases, the elastic requirements
may be relatively large as compared to the basic ones.
For example, if multiple users are working on cloud
with high variations, the number of VMs are required
more and that may be added at runtime many times
multiple of the number of the basic ones. Therefore
the amount of elastic requirements plays a major role
in the total requirements and therefore in the cost of
hosting the service, and the IP has a strong interest in
investigating the possibility of reducing the resources
that need to be booked for elasticity reasons when
accepting the service.
2.3 SCHEDULING
Main goal of scheduling is to increased utilization of
the resources without affecting the services provided
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by the cloud. In cloud computing systems task
scheduling problems are main which relates to the
efficiency of the whole cloud computing system. Job
scheduling is mapping mechanism from user’s tasks
to the appropriate selection of resources and their
execution [8].
Traditional job scheduling algorithms are not able to
provide scheduling in the cloud environment.
Different parameters are used to evaluate the
performance.
The main aim of using job scheduling algorithm is
 To enhance the quality of services of
computing environment & provide predictable
output on instance.
 Maintain fairness and efficiency among the
jobs.
 Proper utilization of resources.
 To obtain a high performance.
Cloud computing has recently received considerable
attention, as a promising approach for delivering Info
and Communication Technologies (ICT) services as a
utility. In the mechanism of providing these services
it is necessary to improve the utilization of datacenter
resources which are operating in most dynamic
workload environments. Datacenters are the crucial
parts of cloud computing [8]. In a single datacenter
generally hundreds and thousands of virtual servers
run at any instance of time, crowding many tasks and
at the same time the cloud system keeps receiving the
batches of task requests. So Task scheduling is a
valuable issue which is greatly influences the
performance of cloud service provider. Traditional
approach that are used in optimization are
deterministic, fast, and give perfect answers but often
tends to get stuck on local optima[9]. Complexity of
the task scheduling problem belongs to Non
Polynomial -complete involving extremely large
search space with correspondingly large number of
potential solutions and takes much longer time to find
the optimal answer. There is no convenient and well
delineate methodology to solve the problems under
such circumstances [10]. However in cloud, it is
tolerable to find near best solution, preferably in a
small period of time. In this framework IT practioners
are focusing on heuristic methods.
There are so many algorithms for scheduling in cloud
computing. Some of them are listed below
 FCFS: First come First serve basis means that
task that come first will be execute first.
 Round-Robin algorithm (RRA): In this
Scheduling algorithm time is to be given to
resources in a time slice manner.
 Min-Min Algorithm: Min-Min algorithm
selects the smaller tasks to be executed first.
 Max-Min algorithm: Max-Min algorithm
selects the bigger tasks to be executed first.
2.3.1 PROCEDURE OF SCHEDULING
Scheduling in cloud computing can be classify into
three stages.
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 Determining a resource and filtering them.
 Selection of a target resource that is based on
certain parameters of task. This stage is called
decision stage.
 Compliance of a particular task to a target.
The goal of scheduling algorithms in distributed
systems is to schedule jobs to the flexible resources in
accordance with flexible time, which includes finding
out a proper sequence in which jobs can be executed
under transaction logic constraints [11]. The main
advantage of task scheduling algorithm is to achieve a
high performance computing and the best system
throughput. Task scheduling computes the task
priority according to the attributes such as user
privilege expectation to be scheduled, task length and
pending time of the task in queue [12,13]. The tasks
are sorted by the priority. And in scheduling each task
is assigned on to service with minimum completion
time.
By using task scheduling model in cloud computing it
is based on two strategies first is the higher priority
task should be scheduled first than lower priority.
Second the task should be completed first as soon as
possible. The scalability in cloud computing can be
achieved by employing mobile agent technology.
CONCLUSION
From the study we conclude that to meet the
parameters of QoS in cloud computing we are going
through the different techniques like admission
control, scheduling and resource provisioning.
Resource provisioning and time scheduling
techniques really help to enhance utilization of
resources correctly in time. By adopting these
technologies in cloud computing it will definitely
improve the response time and availability of the
resources that are required for users. The scope for
the research is not limited upto the study of these
technologies. The scheduling contains job scheduling
and task scheduling algorithm to meet the
researcher’s requirement.
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