Dynamic virtualized resource allocation
A method and associated systems for on-demand Internet of Things bandwidth allocation in response to changing sensor populations. An IOT sensor device adds itself to or deletes itself from a cluster of IOT sensors. A physical IOT controller that manages the cluster detects this change, identifies a resulting change in the cluster's bandwidth requirements, and stores this information in a local database. When such a sensor-population change satisfies a triggering condition, the controller requests that a cloud-based application server adjust the controller's bandwidth allocation. The server aggregates this and similar requests from all connected controllers in a global database, and when controller bandwidth requirements satisfy a second triggering condition, the server, using a standard API, asks the cloud-management platform to reprovision the server's virtual bandwidth allocation. The server then distributes the adjusted bandwidth among its IOT controllers, which in turn allocate their adjusted bandwidths among their sensor devices.
1. A virtualized-resource allocation system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for dynamic virtualized resource allocation, the method comprising:
the virtualized-resource allocation system accepting, from a virtualized device through a virtualized computer infrastructure, a request to adjust an allocation of virtualized resources to the virtualized device, where the virtualized-resource allocation system is implemented as a cloud service managed by a cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system determining that the virtualized device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the cloud-management platform an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the virtualized device;
the virtualized-resource allocation system determining that the requested adjustment has be provisioned by the cloud-management platform; and
the virtualized-resource allocation system adjusting the amount of virtualized resources allocated to the virtualized device, as a function of the determining.
2. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 1 , where the amount of additional resource requested by the virtualized device is a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device through the virtualized computer infrastructure, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
3. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 2 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the virtualized device.
4. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the virtualized device generates its resource request.
5. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device at the time that the virtualized device generates the resource request.
6. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources requested by all virtualized devices connected to the virtualized computer infrastructure.
7. The virtualized-resource allocation system of claim 1 , where the requesting the additional quantity of virtualized resource from the cloud-management platform is performed in response to an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the virtualized device's resource request.
8. A method for dynamic virtualized resource allocation, the method comprising:
a virtualized-resource allocation system accepting, from a virtualized device through a virtualized computer infrastructure, a request to adjust an allocation of resources to the virtualized device, where the virtualized-resource allocation system is implemented as a cloud service managed by a cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system determining that the virtualized device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the cloud-management platform an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the virtualized device;
the virtualized-resource allocation system confirming that the requested adjustment has be provisioned by the cloud-management platform; and
the virtualized-resource allocation system adjusting the amount of virtualized resources allocated to the virtualized device, as a function of the determining.
9. The method of claim 8 , where the quantity of virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices connected to the virtualized device through the virtualized computer infrastructure, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
10. The method of claim 9 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the virtualized device.
11. The method of claim 9 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the virtualized device generates its resource request.
12. The method of claim 9 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device at the time that the virtualized device generates the resource request.
13. The method of claim 8 , where the requesting the additional virtualized resource from the cloud-management platform is performed as a function of an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the virtualized device's resource request.
14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer-readable program code in the computer system, where the computer-readable program code in combination with the computer system is configured to implement the accepting, the determining, the requesting, the confirming, and the adjusting.
15. A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, the program code configured to be executed by a virtualized-resource allocation system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for dynamic virtualized resource allocation, the method comprising:
the virtualized-resource allocation system accepting, from a virtualized device through a virtualized computer infrastructure, a request to adjust an allocation of resources to the virtualized device, where the virtualized-resource allocation system is implemented as a cloud service managed by a cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system determining that the virtualized device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the cloud-management platform;
the virtualized-resource allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the cloud-management platform an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the virtualized device;
the virtualized-resource allocation system confirming that the requested adjustment has be provisioned by the cloud-management platform; and
the virtualized-resource allocation system adjusting the amount of virtualized resources allocated to the virtualized device, as a function of the determining.
16. The computer program product of claim 15 , where the quantity of virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices connected to the virtualized device through the virtualized computer infrastructure, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
17. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the virtualized device.
18. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the virtualized device generates its resource request.
19. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the virtualized device at the time that the virtualized device generates the resource request.
20. The computer program product of claim 15 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the cloud-management platform is determined as a function of an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the virtualized device's resource request.