SLA based resource allocation policies in autonomic environments

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 259-270

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Trubian, Marco ^b   Zhang, Li ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic computing; Load balancing; Quality of service; Resource allocation; SLA optimization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; LOAD BALANCING; SLA OPTIMIZATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 33846440187     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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