Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

As cloud-based services gain popularity in both private and enterprise domains, cloud
consumers are still lacking in tools to verify that these services work as expected. Such tools …

Quality-of-service and SLA guarantees are among the major challenges of cloud-based
services. In this paper we first present a new cloud model called SLAaaS—SLA aware …

Cloud Computing provides a convenient means of remote on-demand and pay-per-use
access to computing resources. However, its ad hoc management of quality-of-service and …

Cloud security and service assurance is a wide research area with an unrestrained amount
of apprehensions, ensuring equipment and stage innovations, to secure information and …

Elasticity is the intrinsic element that differentiates Cloud computing from traditional
computing paradigm, since it allows service providers to rapidly adjust their needs for …

Cloud service level agreement negotiation is a process of joint decision-making between
cloud clients and providers to resolve their conflicting objectives. With the advances of cloud …

As the rate of cloud computing adoption grows, so does the need for consumption
assistance. Enterprises that are looking to migrate their IT systems to the cloud, would like to …

A key technical challenge for overlay multicast is that the highly dynamic multicast members
can make data delivery unreliable. In this paper, we address this issue in the context of live …

Cloud architecture is established as a standard for services provisioning. Discovering of
services is a hard task since several services have to be analysed. The mOSAIC project …