Meeting SLA availability guarantees through engineering margin

9th International Conference on Networks, ICN 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 331-336

  Snow, Andrew P ^a   Weckman, Gry R ^a   Gupta, Vivek ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Markov process; Monte carlo simulation; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LONG TAIL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SEMI MARKOV MODEL; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE LEVELS; TIME INTERVAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; CRIME; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REPAIR;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77954263512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICN.2010.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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