Scalable analytics for IaaS cloud availability

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-70

  Ghosh, Rahul ^a   Longo, Francesco ^b   Frattini, Flavio ^c   Russo, Stefano ^c   Kishor, S Trivedi ^d  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic numeric solution; Availability; Cloud computing; Downtime; Simulation; Stochastic reward nets

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CLOUD COMPUTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAKES; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS; DOWNTIME; EXISTENCE OF A SOLUTIONS; MODEL DRIVEN APPROACH; NUMERIC SOLUTIONS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLAS); SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC REWARD NETS;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84906976356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2014.2310737     Document Type: Article

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