Reasoning Based Workload Performance Prediction in Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing provides utility-based and scalable services to end-users. In the past decade, the demands for resource management in cloud computing have increased substantially which lead to certain challenges such as optimal resource utilization, power consumption, and service level agreement violations. Workload performance prediction serves as an assistance to address these issues. In this paper, we propose a prediction model based on clustered Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). The proposed model determines the performance metrics for workload prior to the co-operation of autonomic computing characteristics. Thus, CBR provides optimal scheduling of resources and workload monitoring for cloud data centers. In order to validate the proposed CBR-based prediction model, we perform a series of experiments and evaluate the effectiveness in terms of precision, recall, f-measure, and mean square error rate. We generate the cases for CBR using traces from the Google cluster data center. Moreover, we also validate our proposed prediction model against Support Vector Machine (SVM) prediction scheme. Experimental results show that the proposed CBR outperforms the SVM-based approach and yields 10% improvement in terms of precision.