Translating service level objectives to lower level policies for multi-tier services

Cluster Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-311

  Chen, Yuan ^a   Iyer, Subu ^a   Liu, Xue ^b   Milojicic, Dejan ^a   Sahai, Akhil ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multi tier application; Performance modeling; Queueing model; SLA management

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FOOD PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; CPU UTILIZATION; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; E-COMMERCE; MULTI TIERED; MULTI-TIER APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; QUALITY-OF-SERVICE GUARANTEES; QUEUEING MODEL; SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVES; SERVICE LEVELS; SERVICE PROVIDERS; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SLA MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 48949107620     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-008-0059-6     Document Type: Article

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