@inproceedings{35f70d8652184101b6ea967a54985083,
title = "Improving profit through cloud federation",
abstract = "This paper addresses profit optimization through insourcing and outsourcing virtual resources (seen as VMs) for cloud infrastructure providers. A linear program is proposed to assist IaaS providers, involved in a cloud federation, in adjusting their hosting and cooperation decisions in response to their workloads and available resources. The proposed exact formulation takes into account the prices and quotas proposed by the federation members and the costs of resources and their networking to maximize providers revenues. The algorithm performance evaluation and the identified benefits show the conditions for profitable cloud federations and the efficiency of the proposed model in improving profit.",
keywords = "Cloud federation, distributed allocation, linear integer programming, profit optimization, request splitting",
author = "Salma Rebai and Makhlouf Hadji and Djamal Zeghlache",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015 ; Conference date: 09-01-2015 Through 12-01-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/CCNC.2015.7158069",
language = "English",
series = "2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "732--739",
booktitle = "2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015",
}