A business-oriented Cloud federation model for real-time applications

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1158-1167

  Yang, Xiaoyu ^a   Nasser, Bassem ^a   Surridge, Mike ^a   Middleton, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud federation; Federated Cloud computing; On demand resource provisioning; Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Indexed keywords

BEST-EFFORT SERVICES; BUSINESS BENEFITS; CLOUD PROVIDERS; FEDERATION MODELS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; SECURITY FEATURES; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84862233084     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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