A framework for Amazon EC2 bidding strategy under SLA constraints

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2-11

  Tang, Shaojie ^a   Yuan, Jing ^b   Wang, Cheng ^c   Li, Xiang Yang ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

bidding strategy; Cloud computing; EC2

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

BIDDING STRATEGY; CHECKPOINTING SCHEMES; CONSTRAINED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; EC2; ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUDS; OPTIMAL BIDDING STRATEGY; RELIABILITY TRADEOFFS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS;

COSTS;

EID: 84910676097     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.15     Document Type: Article

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