Quality-of-service in cloud computing: modeling techniques and their applications

Journal of Internet Services and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Casale, Giuliano ^b   Ciavotta, Michele ^a   Pérez, Juan F ^b   Wang, Weikun ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Modeling; QoS management; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DECISION MAKING; MODELS;

CLOUD APPLICATIONS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; QOS MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVELS; STATE OF THE ART;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84908434478     PISSN: 18674828     EISSN: 18690238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13174-014-0011-3     Document Type: Article

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