Monitoring multimedia quality of service in public Cloud Service Level Agreements

Author(s):  
Laith A. Alsulaiman ◽  
Raad Alturki
Author(s):  
Mohamed M. Ould Deye ◽  
Mamadou Thiongane ◽  
Mbaye Sene

Auto-scaling is one of the most important features in Cloud computing. This feature promises cloud computing customers the ability to best adapt the capacity of their systems to the load they are facing while maintaining the Quality of Service (QoS). This adaptation will be done automatically by increasing or decreasing the amount of resources being leveraged against the workload’s resource demands. There are two types and several techniques of auto-scaling proposed in the literature. However, regardless the type or technique of auto-scaling used, over-provisioning or under-provisioning problem is often observed. In this paper, we model the auto-scaling mechanism with the Stochastic Well-formed coloured Nets (SWN). The simulation of the SWN model allows us to find the state of the system (the number of requests to be dispatched, the idle times of the started resources) from which the auto-scaling mechanism must be operated in order to minimize the amount of used resources without violating the service-level agreements (SLA).


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1457-1462

Cloud computing technology has gained the attention of researchers in recent years. Almost every application is using cloud computing in one way or another. Virtualization allows running many virtual machines on a single physical computer by sharing its resources. Users can store their data on datacenter and run their applications from anywhere using the internet and pay as per service level agreement documents accordingly. It leads to an increase in demand for cloud services and may decrease the quality of service. This paper presents a priority-based selection of virtual machines by cloud service provider. The virtual machines in the cloud datacenter are configured as Amazon EC2 and algorithm is simulated in cloud-sim simulator. The results justify that proposed priority-based virtual machine algorithm shortens the makespan, by 11.43 % and 5.81 %, average waiting time by 28.80 % and 24.50%, and cost of using the virtual machine by 21.24% and 11.54% as compared to FCFS and ACO respectively, hence improving quality of service.


The Cloud Service which is provided generates access to the present resources by service level agreements (SLA) which is formal , and they require proper balanced infrastructures in order to maximize the quality of service (QoS). They try to minimize and provide offer to the count of violations that are offered by the Service Level Agreements. The paper emphasizes on a proper or area of risk assessment which is specific to the applications related to cloud computing. The methods which are present within a framework that is to be used by service providers related to cloud and consumers related service in order to provide assessment of risk in case of deployment of service and the related operation. The paper also puts emphasis on the different stages which are involved in the lifecycle of services where assessment of risk takes place. This leads in the design and implementation of risk models which are in correspondence. The risk puts an impact on the architectural components providing special emphasis on management which is holistic to provide support at operation of services has been described. The assessor which is related to risk has been proven to be effective by various evaluation provided through the experiments and its implementation which needs to be integrated in a toolkit environment provided by cloud computing


Author(s):  
Peer Hasselmeyer ◽  
Bastian Koller ◽  
Philipp Wieder

Non-functional properties are an essential constituent of service level agreements as they describe those quality-of-service parameters that are not related to the actual function of a service. Thus, non-functional properties let providers create distinguishing service offers and let consumers discriminate between various offers that provide the same function. The negotiation of non-functional properties is how service level agreements are commonly established. This chapter introduces various forms, models, specifications, and realizations of service level agreement negotiation to provide a broad background of the current state-of-the-art. Although different in various details, the described systems share a number of common features. Based on them, a holistic architecture is defined combining previous work into one coherent framework. The architecture is applicable to different negotiation models and protocols, and covers all functions of the negotiation phase. Based on this architecture, particular challenges and areas of future work are motivated. These mostly revolve around increasing the acceptance of service level agreement negotiation and enhancing interoperability.


Author(s):  
Christos Bouras ◽  
Apostolos Gkamas ◽  
Dimitris Primpas ◽  
Kostas Stamos

In order for advanced applications in modern computer networks to function satisfactorily, there is often the need for a guaranteed network performance and guaranteed values for several network parameters. When the provisioning and usage of network services is agreed, relevant specifications for the level of the services are also defined.


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