A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE RESERVATION FOR DELAY SENSITIVE SERVICE APPLICATIONS

摘要

The invention provides a system (100) including a servicing module (110) that is adapted to receive and manage a service request (120) from a client network. A scheduling module (130) is in communication with the servicing module (110) and facilitates the provision and deployment of virtual machines in order to fulfil the service requests (120). A prediction module (140) is provided and is configured to predict service latency of unmeasured virtual machine resources and communicate estimated service delay to the servicing module (110). A measurement module (150) is also provided. This is configured to measure service latency of virtual machines which emulate the cloud computing service. The scheduling module (130) is configured to provide and deploys said virtual machines to satisfy a pre-defined service response time based on predicted service latency of unmeasured virtual machine resources and measured service latency of virtual machines.