A two-stage service replica strategy for business process efficiency optimization in Community cloud

Business process that facilitates the organization cooperation and resource sharing plays an important role in Community cloud (Comc). The nature of applications and decentralized infrastructure in Comc make it a big challenge in ensuring the execution efficiency of business process, especially when the business requests are in high concurrency. We present a two-stage service replica strategy to improve the execution efficiency of business process by shortening the response time of request to single service and reducing interaction time among distributed services. We initially utilize the social network property of services to pre-allocate the replicas of key services. After that, queueing model is adopted to determine the required additional replicas according to the quantity and frequency of user requests, then schedule service replicas and requests dynamically. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.