A service provisioning system is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer different types of services to paying customers. A customer is charged for the execution of ...
Michele Mazzucco, Isi Mitrani, Mike Fisher, Paul M...
Abstract. Since the Internet has become a commodity in both wired and wireless environments, new applications and paradigms have emerged to explore this highly distributed and wide...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Large scale distributed real time and embedded (DRE) applications are complex entities that are often composed of different subsystems and have stringent Quality of Service (QoS) r...
Praveen Kaushik Sharma, Joseph P. Loyall, George T...
— Traditional SLAs, defined by average delay or packet loss, often camouflage the instantaneous performance perceived by end-users. We define a set of metrics for service avai...