Modeling user growth for cloud scalability and availability

Journal of Internet Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-406

  Zhao, Gan Sen ^a,c   Rong, Chun Ming ^b   Liu, Jia Le ^a   Liu, Hai ^a   Zhang, Feng ^c   Ye, Xiao Ping ^a   Tang, Na ^a   Tang, Yong ^a  

^a South Chinna Normal University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Availability; Cloud computing; Scalability; User growth model

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTING SERVICES; GROWTH MODELS; SIMPLE MODEL; USER GROWTH MODEL;

SCALABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953267700     PISSN: 16079264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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