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Cloud brokering

Part I. Value-added services in cloud brokering

Cloud performance and placement in cloud brokering
Introduction
Cloud performance evaluation
Motivations and challenges
Studies related to cloud providers performance evaluation
Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) characterization
Placement in cloud brokering
Non-functional requirements-based placement
Application aware placement
Conclusion

Towards a figure of merit for cloud performance
Introduction
Performance evaluation
Evaluation methodology
Experimental setup
Provisioning time
Computation benchmarks performance
Memory benchmarks performance
Storage benchmarks performance
Variability
Figure of merit of VM cloud performance
Mean and radar plot as figures of merit
Simple figure of merit
Figure of merit based on Analytic Hierarchy Process
Case study: CPU-intensive application
Summary

An exact approach for optimizing placement in cloud brokering
Introduction
Goal programming
An exact approach for the Placement problem
Parameters
Variables
Goal
Constraints
Case study: Online trading platform

Part II. A new pricing model in cloud brokering

The Pay-as-you-book pricing model
Introduction
Pricing models in cloud computing
Advance Reservations
Advance Reservation specified by cloud providers
Advance Reservation specified by end-users
Pay-as-you-book
Initial scheduling of Advance Reservations
Pricing and rewarding end-users
Resource allocation policies
Case Study: A Virtual cloud Provider maximizing revenues through the Pay-as-you-book pricing model
Experimental setup
Results and analysis
Summary

Conclusion and future works

Appendix A. Studies related to cloud providers performance

Appendix B. Cloud performance evaluation: details and extended results
Related issues to the performance evaluation
VM configurations
Benchmark duration
Performance-price correlation with a simple figure of merit of Cloud performance
Correlation among VM sizes from different cloud providers
Correlation among different VM sizes from a single cloud provider

Bibliography
List of Figures
List of Tables

Filtros

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