A Cost-Aware Fair Allocation Mechanism for Multi-Resource Servers

We propose a cost-aware measure to establish fair-sharing of multi-resource/heterogeneous servers among multiple users. Each server attributes a virtual cost to the total allocated resources to each user, and strives to allocate resources to users attaining the minimum virtual cost. With the new mechanism, called per-server virtual cost fairness (PS-VCF), users do not envy the cost-allotments of e...