Economical and robust provisioning of N-tier cloud workloads: A Multi-level control approach

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 571-580

  Xiong, Pengcheng ^a   Wang, Zhikui ^b   Malkowski, Simon ^a   Wang, Qingyang ^a   Jayasinghe, Deepal ^a   Pu, Calton ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Cloud computing; N tier web application; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK; APPLICATION LEVEL; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTROL APPROACH; DECISION MAKERS; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; MULTI-LEVEL; NON-TRIVIAL; RESOURCE BUDGET; RESOURCE CONTROLLERS; RESOURCE DEMANDS; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; ROUND-TRIP TIME; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; TIME VARYING; TOTAL BUDGET; WEB APPLICATION;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTAINERS; CONTROLLERS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 80051864287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2011.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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