Estimating service response time for elastic cloud applications

2012 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, CLOUDNET 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 12-16

  Salah, Khaled ^a   Boutaba, Raouf ^b,c  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Elastic Applications; Performance Modeling and Analysis; Queueing Theory; Service and Network Delays; SLA

Indexed keywords

CLOUD APPLICATIONS; ELASTIC APPLICATIONS; END-TO-END RESPONSE TIME; NETWORK DELAYS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ANALYSIS; SERVICE RESPONSE TIME; SLA;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CLOUD COMPUTING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84876120874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudNet.2012.6483647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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