DYNAMIC RESOURCE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS

• US 20110022697A1
• Filed: 07/23/2009
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Original Assignee: University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Inventors: HUH, Eui-Nam
• Granted Patent: US 8,543,686 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0805 by checking availability

Abstract

Service providers capable of dynamic resource collaboration and corresponding dynamic resource collaboration techniques are provided. In one embodiment, a network service provider includes a service server that processes service requests, a resource monitoring unit that monitors available computing resources of the service server and generates a resource request for supplementary computing resources from one or more collaborating network service providers based on the result of the monitoring, and a resource collaboration unit acquires supplementary computing resources from at least one of the collaborating network service providers.

Claims

1. A network service provider comprising:

a service server that processes service requests;

a resource monitoring unit that monitors available computing resources of the service server and generates a resource request for supplementary computing resources from one or more collaborating network service providers based on the result of the monitoring; and

a resource collaboration unit that, in response to the resource request, acquires supplementary computing resources from at least one of the collaborating network service providers.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the resource monitoring unit generates the resource request when the available computing resources are below a predetermined level.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the resource monitoring unit generates the resource request when the available computing resources are less than computing resources necessary to service the service requests.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the resource collaboration unit sends a resource negotiation request to the collaborating network service providers in response to the resource request, receives a resource negotiation response corresponding to the sent resource negotiation request from each collaborating network service provider interested in the resources negotiation request, and selects at least one collaborating network service provider for the supplementary computing resources based on the received resource negotiation responses.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the resource negotiation request comprises service requirements and policy information of the service server, and wherein the resource negotiation response comprises service requirements and policy information regarding the collaborating network service providers.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the policy information comprises access information, service providing cost, and quality of service information.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the service requirements of the service server are based on current computing resource factors and service level agreement requirements necessary to service one or more service consumers.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the selected at least one collaborating network service provider meets the service level agreement requirements of the service server.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the resource collaboration unit generates a negotiated policy between the network service provider and each of the selected at least one collaborating service providers based on the resource negotiation request and the resource negotiation response, and acquires the supplementary computing resources from the selected at least one collaborating service providers according to the negotiated policy.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a resource allocation unit that dynamically allocates at least a portion of the service requests to the acquired supplementary computing resources.

11. An apparatus embodied in a primary network system that acquires external resources from one or more external network systems, the apparatus comprising:

a mediator that generates a resource negotiation request including service requirements and policy information associated with the primary network system;

a collaboration agent that transmits the resource negotiation request to the external network systems, receives a resource negotiation response corresponding to the resource negotiation request from the external network systems interested in the resource negotiation request; and

a policy negotiator that selects at least one external network system for external resources based on the resource negotiation request and the resource negotiation response.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the mediator generates the service requirements based on current computing resource factors of the primary network system and service level agreement requirements of service consumers accessing to the primary network system.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a service registry that stores the current computing resource factors and the service level agreement requirements.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the policy negotiator generates a negotiated policy between the primary network system and each of the at least one selected external network systems based on the resource negotiation request and the resource negotiation response.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the collaboration agent acquires the external resources from the selected external network systems according to the negotiated policy.

16. A method for acquiring supplementary resources from one or more external network systems, comprising:

monitoring the usage of resources of a primary network system;

generating a resource request for the supplementary resources according to the result of the monitoring;

transmitting a resource negotiation request to the one or more external network systems in response to the resource request;

receiving a resource negotiation result corresponding to the resource negotiation request from each of the external network systems interested in the resource negotiation request; and

selecting at least one external network system for the supplementary resources based on the resource negotiation result.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the resource request is generated when available resources of the primary system are less than resources necessary to service service requests received from service consumers.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the resource negotiation request comprises service requirements and policy information associated with the primary network system.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising, subsequent to selecting the at least one external network system:

generating a negotiated policy between the primary network system and each of the at least one selected external network systems based on the resource negotiation result; and

acquiring the supplementary resources from the selected external network systems according to the negotiated policy.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising dynamically allocating some of the service requests received from service consumers to the acquired supplementary resources.