Service Level Management in Cloud Computing : Pareto-Efficient Negotiations, Reliable Monitoring, and Robust Monitor Placement

Description

Melanie Holloway explores a cloud broker offering service level agreement negotiation and monitoring as a service to consumers. She proposes a negotiation mechanism, which enables the achievement of economically efficient agreements, and an approach for reliable consumer side availability monitoring in conjunction with strategies for robust monitor placement. The author addresses the loss of control of consumers over critical aspects, specifically quality of service, when using services from the cloud.Basically, the cloud computing paradigm places the responsibility for resource management on the provider side. Hence, the control over cloud service performance is very limited on the consumer side. Front Matter ....Pages I-XVII Introduction (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 1-9 Background (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 11-38 Related Work (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 39-61 Basic System Design - CSLAB.KOM (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 63-81 Pareto-Efficient Negotiations - CSLAB-Neg.KOM (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 83-110 Reliable Monitoring - CSLAB-Mon.KOM (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 111-136 Robust Monitor Placement - CSLAB-Loc.KOM (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 137-164 Evaluation (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 165-206 Summary and Outlook (Melanie Holloway)....Pages 207-212 Back Matter ....Pages 213-250