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Cloud services are gaining popularity with times. Service level agreement (SLA) serves a basic understanding between the clients and cloud service providers (CSP). Ensuring secured and adequate service is a basic need of the customers. In this work a set of compliance parameters for cloud service level agreement is identified. A generic rule base is designed to empower the process with an automated...
Although Fog computing specifies a scalable architecture for computation, communication and storage, there is still a demand for better Quality of Service (QoS), especially for agile mobile services. Both industry and academia have been working on novel and efficient mechanisms for QoS provisioning in Fog computing. This paper presents a classification of services according to their QoS requirements...
Cloud computing is attracting an increased number of researches in delivering modeling and simulation abilities as a service. Among which, simulation execution as a service (EaaS) is a hot spot. It aims at releasing users from complex running configurations and meanwhile guaranteeing the QoS requirements. Under the motivation, focusing on EaaS for parallel and distributed simulation (PADS) application,...
The quality of service is one of challenges posed by the Cloud Computing. This issue plays an important role in making the Cloud services acceptable to customers, denotes the levels of performance, reliability, and availability offered by Cloud services. Literature has reported many implementations for measuring and ensuring QoS in Cloud Computing systems to achieve better results and meet the needs...
The designers of computing systems have interested on the improvements of computing performance that are driven by the demand of consumer, business, and scientific applications. However, further growth of computing performance has started to be limited due to the increasing energy consumption of cloud data centres as a result of carbon dioxide footprints and overwhelming electricity bills. Therefore,...
With emerging use of real time communication (i.e., high band width videos, video calls etc.) and IoT, this become challenge to manage network and handle traffic. SDN is a technology which provides scalability and flexibility to network by decoupling of control plane and data plane. It is also difficult to allocate resources depending upon types of tasks and user requirements. SDN central controller...
Cloud computing has received a significant amount of attentions from both engineering and academic fields. Designing optimal pricing schemes of cloud services plays an important role for the success of cloud computing. How to set optimal prices of cloud resources in order to maximize these CSPs' revenues in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud market while at the same time meeting the cloud...
Hybrid Clouds couple the scalability of public Clouds with the greater control supplied by private ones. Hybrid Cloud Brokers support customers in selecting the most suitable providers' offers, optionally adding the provisioning of dedicated services with higher Quality of Service (QoS) levels. A clear evaluation of the benefits on performance and energy savings brought about by any allocation strategy...
A Vehicular Cloud is defined as a set of vehicles that share their computation resources in a cloud. These resources are scheduled on demand based on cooperation between vehicles and the roadside. The biggest challenge in this type of cloud is to create a structure that will manage the service and resource when the cloud does not depend on the roadside infrastructure. Thus, the vehicles need to collaborate...
Cloud environments are criticized for their volatility in performance aspects, making it extremely difficult for time- critical applications owners to perform the decisive step for migration and owners of SaaS to present performance vs cost tradeoffs to their customers when acting as IaaS customers. The aim of this work is to present an architectural approach based on which a)IaaS providers may enhance...
Due to the advantages of cloud computing, it has been adopted as deployment platform of SBS (Service-based Systems). It also provides an elastic "pay-as-you-go" mode, which creates new resource allocation challenge that satisfying the QoS (Quality of Service) requirements with least resource allocation. There has been much interest in using feedback control to make resource allocation, but...
The problem of efficient resource management in large cloud data centres is well recognised in the cloud management community. With the rising demand for cloud services and expansion of the size and distribution of data centres, the repercussions of not taking into account all parameters of interest while allocating resources are becoming significant. Hence, one of the major issues today is how to...
More and more real-time IoT applications such as smart cities or autonomous vehicles require big data analytics with reduced latencies. However, data streams produced from distributed sensing devices may not suffice to be processed traditionally in the remote cloud due to: (i) longer Wide Area Network (WAN) latencies and (ii) limited resources held by a single Cloud. To solve this problem, a novel...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm is introducing novel approaches for many unresolved issues of networking. These new outlooks are imperative in emerging scenarios where user requirements keep growing, the required bandwidth keeps increasing, and so does the variety of applications (e.g. Big data analytics) that suggest the network plays a more prominent role. As such, our research aims to...
Leveraging Virtual Machine (VM) technologies to host multiple Web applications on the same physical machine can improve the resource utilization and thus save a cloud provider's provisioning cost. By allocating and scheduling virtual CPU (vCPU) resources for running VMs, a hosted Web application may achieve varying performances. Thus, when facing an end user with a specific SLA (Service Level Agreement)...
Cloud Computing infrastructures are being increasingly used for running business process activities due to its high performance level and low operating cost. The enterprise QoS requirements are diverse and different resources are offered by Cloud providers in various QoS-based pricing strategies. Furthermore, business process activities are constrained by hard timing constraints and if they are not...
Most of the current research work on web service selection has only considered the selection problem from the perspective of one party – service users. The selection model usually tries to find services which can optimize the user requirements. However, a service marketplace serves multiple parties, including both service users and providers. Thus, it is important to consider multiple parties when...
Software-defined datacenters combine centralized resource management, software-defined networking, and virtualized infrastructure to meet diverse requirements of cloud computing. To fully realizing their capability in traffic engineering and flow-based bandwidth management, it is critical for the switches to measure network traffic for both individual flows between virtual machines and aggregate flows...
Organizations are nowadays more and more adopting Cloud computing to execute their multi-tenant business processes in order to quickly adapt to changes of requirements at lower costs. In such environment, using configurable process models allows for various tenants to share a reference process which can be customized depending on their needs. However, there is a lack of support for cloud-specific...
The REliable CApacity Provisioning and enhanced remediation for distributed cloud applications (RECAP) project aims to advance cloud and edge computing technology, to develop mechanisms for reliable capacity provisioning, and to make application placement, infrastructure management, and capacity provisioning autonomous, predictable and optimized. This paper presents the RECAP vision for an integrated...
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