SLA-based resource provisioning for hosted software-as-a-service applications in cloud computing environments

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 465-485

  Wu, Linlin ^a   Garg, Saurabh Kumar ^b   Versteeg, Steve ^c   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Sterling Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; customer driven; Key Performance Indicator (KPI); resource allocation; resource provisioning; scheduling; Service Level Agreement (SLA); software as a service

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS);

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CUSTOMER-DRIVEN; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84907197862     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2013.49     Document Type: Article

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