ABSTRACT
Cloud computing can cut IT costs and at the same time herald in a new era of agility in IT operations. A fundamental element is the concept of a datacenter, in which IT solutions are considered as services and are as easily purchased as other consumption models. This facility is caused by the development of virtualization technology, which hides heterogeneous conÀguration details from customers. Therefore, resource provision takes on market dealing behaviors, not just match-making scheduling between tasks and machines [Armbrust et al., 2009]. The market mechanism is an effective method to control electronic resources, but the existing marketbased models are dedicated either to maximize the revenue of suppliers, or to balance the supply-demand relationship [Buyya et al., 2002]. In this chapter, we shall focus on the contest among cloud customers who need the same resource, and make a reasonable allocation to keep market equilibrium.
