Apply AHP for Resource Allocation Problem in Cloud

Avtar Singh, Kamlesh Dutta

Department Computer Science Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2015.310002                

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm with many applications that are integrated with IT organization having the freedom to migrate services between different physical servers. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with a pairwise comparison matrix technique for applications has been used for serving resources. AHP is a mathematical technique for multi-criteria decision-making used in cloud computing. The growth in cloud computing for resource allocation is sudden and raises complex issues with quality of services for selecting applications. Finally, based on the selected criteria, applications are ranked using the pairwise comparison matrix of AHP to determine the most effective scheme. The presented AHP technique represents a well-balanced multi criteria priorities synthesis of various applications effect factors that must be taken into consideration when making complex decisions of this nature. Keeping in view wide range of applications of cloud computing an attempt has been made to develop multiple criteria decision making model.

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Consistency Ratio (CR), Consistency Index (CI)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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