Optimal management of virtual infrastructures under flexible cloud service agreements

• Main Authors: GUO, Zhiling, LI, Jin, RAMESH, Ram
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: cloud computing; service level agreement (SLA); dynamic programming (DP); online algorithm; virtual machines (VMs); cloud resource management; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4828; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5831/viewcontent/ISR_Final_2019.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A cloud service agreement entails the provisioning of a required set of virtual infrastructure resources at a specified level of availability to a client. The agreement also lays out the price charged to the client and a penalty to the provider when the assured availability is not met. The availabil...