Combinatorial Auction-Based Resource Allocation in the Fog

Network service composition is becoming increasingly flexible, thanks in part to advances in virtualisation and cloud technologies. As these penetrate further into networks, providers are often looking to leverage this infrastructure to improve their service delivery. This desire poses a number of obstacles, including a diversity in device capabilities and the need for a value exchange mechanism. In this demonstration, we present a platform that seeks to address a selection of these challenges

Integration of Blockchain and Auction Models: A Survey, Some Applications, and Challenges

In recent years, blockchain has gained widespread attention as an emerging technology for decentralization, transparency, and immutability in advancing online activities over public networks. As an essential market process, auctions have been well studied and applied in many business fields due to their efficiency and contributions to fair trade. Complementary features between blockchain and auction models trigger a great potential for research and innovation. On the one hand, the decentralized nature of blockchain can provide a trustworthy, secure, and cost-effective mechanism to manage the auction process; on the other hand, auction models can be utilized to design incentive and consensus protocols in blockchain architectures. These opportunities have attracted enormous research and innovation activities in both academia and industry; however, there is a lack of an in-depth review of existing solutions and achievements. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of these two research topics. We review the existing solutions for integrating blockchain and auction models, with some application-oriented taxonomies generated. Additionally, we highlight some open research challenges and future directions towards integrated blockchain-auction models

POEM: Pricing Longer for Edge Computing in the Device Cloud

Multiple access mobile edge computing has been proposed as a promising technology to bring computation services close to end users, by making good use of edge cloud servers. In mobile device clouds (MDC), idle end devices may act as edge servers to offer computation services for busy end devices. Most existing auction based incentive mechanisms in MDC focus on only one round auction without considering the time correlation. Moreover, although existing single round auctions can also be used for multiple times, users should trade with higher bids to get more resources in the cascading rounds of auctions, then their budgets will run out too early to participate in the next auction, leading to auction failures and the whole benefit may suffer. In this paper, we formulate the computation offloading problem as a social welfare optimization problem with given budgets of mobile devices, and consider pricing longer of mobile devices. This problem is a multiple-choice multi-dimensional 0-1 knapsack problem, which is a NP-hard problem. We propose an auction framework named MAFL for long-term benefits that runs a single round resource auction in each round. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed auction mechanism outperforms the single round by about 55.6% on the revenue on average and MAFL outperforms existing double auction by about 68.6% in terms of the revenue.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, Accepted by the 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP

A Unique Multi-Agent-Based Approach for Enhanced QoS Resource Allocation in Multi Cloud Environment while Maintaining Minimized Energy and Maximize Revenue

The use of the multi-cloud data storage in one heterogeneous service is a polynimbus cloud strategy. Cloud computing uses a pay-as-you-go model to deliver services to a variety of end users. Customers can outsource daunting tasks to cloud data centres for processing and producing results, thanks to cloud computing. Cloud computing becomes the popular IT brand that provides various on-demand services over the internet. This technology is devoted to distributing computer and software resources. The proven usefulness of workflows to enforce relevant scientific achievements is the availability of data from advanced scientific tools. Scheduling algorithms are essential in order to automate these strenuous workflows efficiently. A number of new heuristics based on a Cloud resource model have been developed. The majority of these heuristic - based address QoS issues in one or two dimensions. The cloud computing technology offers a decentralised pool of services and resources with various models that are provided to the customers across the Internet in an on-demand, continuously distributed, and pay-per-use model. The key challenge we address in this paper is to maximise revenue while maintaining a minimum consumption of energy with an enhanced QoS for resource allocation. The obtained results from proposed method when compared with the existing state of art methods observed to be novel and better