Truthful Online Auction Toward Maximized Instance Utilization in the Cloud.

Although infrastructure as a service (IaaS) users are busy scaling up/out their cloud instances to meet the ever-increasing demands, the dynamics of their demands, as well as the coarse-grained billing options offered by leading cloud providers, have led to substantial instance underutilization in both temporal and spatial domains. This paper systematically examines an instance subletting service,...