Review for "FairCloud: Sharing The Network In Cloud Computing"

The key problem here is that, networking performance of a VM x not only depend on the VMs running on the same machine, but also on the VMs that x communicated with and the multiplexing data transfer on the links used by x.

The authors want to design a new approach which fulfill the following 3 requirements. 1 network share should be promotional to the payment. 2 users should receive some guarantee about the minimum network bandwidth they can use. 3 maximize the network utilization

There are mainly two key concept in FaireCloud. First, they allocate the congested links in proportional to the number of VM instead of  number of links/flows. Second, they use the VM proxy to link to a tenant's share on the link.

The trade-off here is between the ability to share congested links in proportional to the payment and providing the minimum bandwidth guarantee.

I think it will be influential in 10 years. It is because that the networking performance is a key issue on cloud computing area.