An Analytical Model for Estimating Cloud Resources of Elastic Services

Journal of Network and Systems Management

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 285-308

  Salah, Khaled ^a   Elbadawi, Khalid ^b   Boutaba, Raouf ^c,d  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Auto scaling; Capacity engineering; Cloud computing; Elasticity; Performance modeling and analysis; Resource management

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; WEB SERVICES;

AMAZON WEB SERVICES; AUTO-SCALING; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

ANALYTICAL MODELS;

EID: 84938718108     PISSN: 10647570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10922-015-9352-x     Document Type: Article

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