In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
Abstract. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely on Internet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance le...
The Differentiated Services Architecture defines the mechanisms that are needed to offer multiple classes of services in an IP network. While this model offers significant scaling ...
Dinesh C. Verma, Mandis Beigi, Raymond B. Jennings...
One of the key requirement for Grid infrastructures is the ability to share resources with nontrivial qualities of service. However, resource management in a decentralized infrast...
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predefined SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...