QoS guarantees and service differentiation for dynamic cloud applications

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-55

  Rao, Jia ^a   Wei, Yudi ^b   Gong, Jiayu ^b   Xu, Cheng Zhong ^b  

^a University of Colorado Colorado Springs   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Fuzzy control; Quality of service; Resource management

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTROLLERS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FUZZY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APPLICATION-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; CLOUD ELASTICITIES; DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING; RESOURCE CONTROLLERS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SELF-TUNING FUZZY CONTROL; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84893307436     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2012.091012.120238     Document Type: Article

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