Resource Management in Cloud Networking Using Economic Analysis and Pricing Models: A Survey

摘要

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on applications ofeconomic and pricing models for resource management in cloud networking. Toachieve sustainable profit advantage, cost reduction, and flexibility inprovisioning of cloud resources, resource management in cloud networkingrequires adaptive and robust designs to address many issues, e.g., resourceallocation, bandwidth reservation, request allocation, and workload allocation.Economic and pricing models have received a lot of attention as they can leadto desirable performance in terms of social welfare, fairness, truthfulness,profit, user satisfaction, and resource utilization. This paper reviewsapplications of the economic and pricing models to develop adaptive algorithmsand protocols for resource management in cloud networking. Besides, we survey avariety of incentive mechanisms using the pricing strategies in sharingresources in edge computing. In addition, we consider using pricing models incloud-based Software Defined Wireless Networking (cloud-based SDWN). Finally,we highlight important challenges, open issues and future research directionsof applying economic and pricing models to cloud networking