Current large distributed systems allow users to share and trade resources. In cloud computing, users purchase different types of resources from one or more resource providers usi...
—For many organizations, one attractive use of cloud resources can be through what is referred to as cloud bursting or the hybrid cloud. These refer to scenarios where an organiz...
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
Abstract. The Cloud is fast gaining popularity as a platform for deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. In principle, the Cloud provides unlimited compute resources, ...
Chun Chen, Gang Chen, Dawei Jiang, Beng Chin Ooi, ...