Abstract:Abstract-Virtual networks that allow tenants to explicitly specify their computing as well as networking resources are recently proposed to be better interfaces between cloud providers and tenants. Many virtual networks have time-varying resource demands, as evidenced in prior studies [1][2][3]. New opportunities emerge when such variation is exploited. In this paper, we design a novel resource demand model for tenants to flexibly trade off between application performance and cost, and propose a work-conservin… Show more
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