A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the
consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do …

Server virtualization opens up a range of new possibilities for autonomic datacenter
management, through the availability of new automation mechanisms that can be exploited …

Distributed system emulators provide a paramount platform for testing of network protocols
and distributed applications in clusters and networks of workstations. However, to allow …

Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at
all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance …

In this paper, a methodology to handle a WTA problem with the interference constraints is
proposed. In a high dense combat field the potential of interference occurrence increases …

We propose a new approach to scheduling virtual machines (VMs) on a provider CPU that is
unique in that is based around the use of direct user input. In our system, a user's VM is …

In the last decade we have seen tremendous increases in computer and network speeds
and performance, resulting in the emergence of wide-area distributed computing. However …

When managing dynamic virtual environments, a consideration that is often overlooked is
that of licences. This consideration is particularly important when the environment contains …

As cloud computing gains a lot of attention that provides various service abilities, large-scale
datacenters become dominant components of the cloud infrastructure. Huge energy …

Distributed systems are composed of geographically distributed computing elements that
belong to multiple administrative domains and are controlled by multiple entities. These …