Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Resource pooling
Damon Wischik, Mark Handley, and Marcelo Bagnulo Braun in their article
“The Resource Pooling Principle” [22] define resource pooling as:
“Resource pooling means making a collection of networked resources behave as
though they make up a single pooled resource. The general method of resource
pooling is to build mechanisms for shifting load between various parts of the
network.”
They go on to make two observations:
1 “Resource pooling is often the only practical way to achieve resilience
at acceptable cost.”
2 “Resource pooling is also a cost-effective way to achieve flexibility and
high utilization.”
Maguire Resource pooling 13: 48 of 91
maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik