Methods and systems for sharing computational resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016247178-A1
Application number	US-201514629510-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 24, 2015
Priority date	Feb 24, 2015
Publication date	Aug 25, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods and systems for determining incentives for sharing one or more computational resources in a network. A request from a resource requester is received for executing a workload. The request comprises a service level agreement (SLA) associated with said execution of said workload. A contribution of one or more computational resources, associated with a resource provider, in satisfying said SLA is determined based at least on a capacity associated with said one or more computational resources, a duration of a usage of said one or more computational resources for said execution, and one or more constraints included in said SLA. The incentives for said resource provider for said sharing of said one or more computational resources is determined based at least on said contribution.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for determining incentives for sharing one or more computational resources in a network, the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, a request from a resource requester for executing a workload, wherein said request comprises a service level agreement (SLA) associated with said execution of said workload; determining, by said one or more processors, a contribution of one or more computational resources, associated with a resource provider, in satisfying said SLA, based at least on a capacity associated with said one or more computational resources, a duration of a usage of said one or more computational resources for said execution, and one or more constraints included in said SLA; and determining, by said one or more processors, said incentives for said resource provider for said sharing of said one or more computational resources based at least on said contribution.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said capacity associated with said one or more computational resources is determined based at least on a computing power of said one or more computational resources, and a network bandwidth between said resource requester and said resource provider.

3 . The method of claim 2 further comprising receiving, by said one or more processors, weightage corresponding to each of said computing power and said network bandwidth to determine said capacity.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more computational resources correspond to at least one of CPUs, memory, or disk-space.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said incentives comprise at least one of monetary incentives and non-monetary incentives.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said non-monetary incentives comprise at least one of a usage of products/services offered by one or more third parties, discount coupons, shopping vouchers, gift items, or lottery tickets.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said network corresponds to a distributed computing network.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said constraints included in said SLA comprise at least one of a required capacity of said one or more computational resources to execute said workload, a type of said one or more computational resources, a start time associated with a use of said one or more computational resources, an end time associated with a use of said one or more computational resources, or a cost associated with said one or more computational resources.

9 . A system for determining incentives for sharing one or more computational resources in a network, the system comprising:
one or more processors operable to: receive a request from a resource requester for executing a workload, wherein said request comprises a service level agreement (SLA) associated with said execution of said workload; determine a contribution of one or more computational resources, associated with a resource provider, in satisfying said SLA, based at least on a capacity associated with said one or more computational resources, a duration of a usage of said one or more computational resources for said execution, and one or more constraints included in said SLA; and determine said incentives for said resource provider for said sharing of said one or more computational resources based at least on said contribution.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein said capacity associated with said one or more computational resources is determined based at least on a computing power of said one or more computational resources, and a network bandwidth between said resource requester and said resource provider.

11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein said one or more processors are further operable to receive weightage corresponding to each of said computing power and said network bandwidth to determine said capacity.

12 . The system of claim 9 , wherein said one or more computational resources correspond to at least one of CPUs, memory, or disk-space.

13 . The system of claim 9 , wherein said incentives comprise at least one of monetary incentives and non-monetary incentives.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein said non-monetary incentives comprise at least one of a usage of products/services offered by one or more third parties, discount coupons, shopping vouchers, gift items, or lottery tickets.

15 . The system of claim 9 , wherein said network corresponds to a distributed computing network.

16 . The system of claim 9 , wherein said constraints included in said SLA comprise at least one of a required capacity of said one or more computational resources to execute said workload, a type of said one or more computational resources, a start time associated with a use of said one or more computational resources, an end time associated with a use of said one or more computational resources, or a cost associated with said one or more computational resources.

17 . A computer program product for use with a computer, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium stores a computer program code for determining incentives for sharing one or more computational resources in a network, wherein the computer program code is executable by one or more processors to:
receive a request from a resource requester for executing a workload, wherein said request comprises a service level agreement (SLA) associated with said execution of said workload; determine a contribution of one or more computational resources, associated with a resource provider, in satisfying said SLA, based at least on a capacity associated with said one or more computational resources, a duration of a usage of said one or more computational resources for said execution, and one or more constraints included in said SLA; and determine said incentives for said resource provider for said sharing of said one or more computational resources based at least on said contribution.

Assignees

• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Gujar Sujit
• Mukherjee Tridib
• Kunde Shruti

Classifications

• G06Q30/0208 Primary

  Trade or exchange of goods or services in exchange for incentives or rewards · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L41/5019

  Ensuring fulfilment of SLA · CPC title

• H04L41/5003

  Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS · CPC title

• H04L47/828

  Allocation of resources per group of connections, e.g. per group of users · CPC title