A Combinatorial Auctioneer for Fog Resource Provisioning

Airship is a tool designed to provide market-based resource allocation in Fog environments. This is intended to address the challenge of satisfying the requirements of multiple potential competing infrastructure users.

To do this, Airship uses a PAUSE combinatorial auction system. This is designed to be computationally tractable, a common pitfall of alternative techniques. More details can be found in Chapter 6 of Combinatorial Auctions.

This work was presented in the following publications:

Combinatorial Auction-Based Resource Allocation in the Fog, Fawcett, L., Broadbent, M. H. & Race, N. J. P., 10/2016 Fifth European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN), 2016. IEEE

A more detailed tutorial and description are to follow.

Airship is built in golang.

To fetch Airship, first fetch the respository:

$ git clone https://github.com/broadbent/airship.git

Move into the repository:

$ cd airship

The run Airship with:

$ go run airship.go

Airship has a number of golang dependencies. These are handled with godep, so no need for additional installs.

A running MongoDB instance is also required. Please see their documentation for instructions on how to install this.

As mentioned previously, Airship works alongside Siren to discover resources and provision successful auctions. A running instance of this is also required. Please see their documentation for more details.

An example default configuration can be found in airship\config\config.json, or alternatively online.

This contains some sane default configuration. It may be necessary to change this to match your deployment scenario. For example, it may be necessary to change the way Airship connects to the required MongoDB.