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Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2010-10-15 v1

Abstract

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee that consumers' service quality expectation can be achieved. In utility computing systems, the level of customer satisfaction is crucial, making SLAs significantly important in these environments. Fundamental issue is the management of SLAs, including SLA autonomy management or trade off among multiple Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Many SLA languages and frameworks have been developed as solutions; however, there is no overall classification for these extensive works. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to present a comprehensive survey of how SLAs are created, managed and used in utility computing environment. We discuss existing use cases from Grid and Cloud computing systems to identify the level of SLA realization in state-of-art systems and emerging challenges for future research.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2881,
  title  = {Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems},
  author = {Linlin Wu and Rajkumar Buyya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2881},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

27 pages, 4 tables, 6 figures

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