A framework for ranking of cloud computing services

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1012-1023

  Garg, Saurabh Kumar ^a   Versteeg, Steve ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Sterling Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Quality of service; Service level agreement; Service measurement

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WEB SERVICES;

APPLICATION SERVICES; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD SERVICES; IT INDUSTRY; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE MEASUREMENTS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84865048353     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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