SLA-driven clustering of QoS-aware application servers

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 186-197

  Lodi, Giorgia ^a   Panzieri, Fabio ^a   Rossi, Davide ^a   Turrini, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic cluster configuration; Load balancing; Monitoring; QoS aware application server; QoS aware cluster; Quality of Service; Service Level Agreement

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DYNAMIC CLUSTER CONFIGURATION; DYNAMIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT;

SERVERS;

EID: 33947372509     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.28     Document Type: Article

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