PowerVmSelectionPolicyRandomSelection.java

/*
 * Title:        CloudSim Toolkit
 * Description:  CloudSim (Cloud Simulation) Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Clouds
 * Licence:      GPL - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2012, The University of Melbourne, Australia
 */

package org.cloudbus.cloudsim.power;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;

import org.cloudbus.cloudsim.Vm;

/**
 * A VM selection policy that randomly select VMs to migrate from a host.
 * 
 * <br/>If you are using any algorithms, policies or workload included in the power package please cite
 * the following paper:<br/>
 * 
 * <ul>
 * <li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1867">Anton Beloglazov, and Rajkumar Buyya, "Optimal Online Deterministic Algorithms and Adaptive
 * Heuristics for Energy and Performance Efficient Dynamic Consolidation of Virtual Machines in
 * Cloud Data Centers", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Volume 24,
 * Issue 13, Pages: 1397-1420, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, New York, USA, 2012</a>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @author Anton Beloglazov
 * @since CloudSim Toolkit 3.0
 */
public class PowerVmSelectionPolicyRandomSelection extends PowerVmSelectionPolicy {
	@Override
	public Vm getVmToMigrate(PowerHost host) {
		List<PowerVm> migratableVms = getMigratableVms(host);
		if (migratableVms.isEmpty()) {
			return null;
		}
		int index = (new Random()).nextInt(migratableVms.size());
		return migratableVms.get(index);
	}

}