The WSLA Framework: Specifying and Monitoring Service Level Agreements for Web Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Automated SLA Monitoring for Web Services
DSOM '02 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Management Technologies for E-Commerce and E-Business Applications
Metrics and Benchmarking for Parallel Job Scheduling
IPPS/SPDP '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Specifying and Monitoring Guarantees in Commercial Grids through SLA
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Grid service level agreements: Grid resource management with intermediaries
Grid resource management
Improving resource selection and scheduling using predictions
Grid resource management
A framework for adaptive execution in grids
Software—Practice & Experience
Pace--A Toolset for the Performance Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Systems
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
A Model for Usage Policy-Based Resource Allocation in Grids
POLICY '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
The virtual resource manager: an architecture for SLA-aware resource management
CCGRID '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Virtual workspaces: Achieving quality of service and quality of life in the Grid
Scientific Programming - Dynamic Grids and Worldwide Computing
Combining batch execution and leasing using virtual machines
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
GSMA based Automated Negotiation Model for Grid Scheduling
SCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 2
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
ICWS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Resource allocation algorithm for light communication grid-based workflows within an SLA context
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
Resource usage policy expression and enforcement in grid computing
GRID '07 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
Achieving Co-allocation through Virtualization in Grid Environment
GPC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
Real-time reconfiguration for guaranteeing QoS provisioning levels in Grid environments
Future Generation Computer Systems
A P2P strategy for QoS discovery and SLA negotiation in Grid environment
Future Generation Computer Systems
GMAC '09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference industry session on Grids meets autonomic computing
An SLA-based resource virtualization approach for on-demand service provision
VTDC '09 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
Virtual Organization Clusters: Self-provisioned clouds on the grid
Future Generation Computer Systems
Job-resource matchmaking on Grid through two-level benchmarking
Future Generation Computer Systems
Suspending, migrating and resuming HPC virtual clusters
Future Generation Computer Systems
Resource federation in grid using automated intelligent agent negotiation
Future Generation Computer Systems
Division of labor: tools for growing and scaling grids
ICSOC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Virtual workspaces in the grid
Euro-Par'05 Proceedings of the 11th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing
Future Generation Computer Systems
Towards autonomic detection of SLA violations in Cloud infrastructures
Future Generation Computer Systems
Resource requirement prediction using clone detection technique
Future Generation Computer Systems
An SLA-based Broker for Cloud Infrastructures
Journal of Grid Computing
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Limitations of Grid, such as provisioning the dynamic execution environment are handled by virtualization technology. While delivering virtual resources for executing the applications, the user's Quality of Service requirements must be ensured. This QoS management is instrumented with the help of Service Level Agreements that clearly specify the guaranteed QoS, restrictions on resource usage and the penalties associated with the deviant service behavior. To support those demanding QoS, the grid meta-schedulers must be empowered with the capability to discover the required quality, quantity and usage policy satisfied resources as per the requirements of an application. In this paper, we propose a Service Level Agreement based on-demand resource virtualization framework that provides the support for specifying the usage policies, creates and manages the virtual machines over the SLA negotiated resources that are created using either VMWare or Xen. This proposed architecture is integrated with our grid meta-scheduler, CARE Resource Broker as a value addition component. This SLA enabled broker is evaluated with the help of real-time application execution by varying the number of resources available in the test-bed and the number of policies per resource. The results conclude that the inclusion of SLA affects the resource selection behavior of the broker. In addition, the overall performance of the system is increased in terms of job throughput with an extra minimal overhead in request processing due to usage policy matching, while realizing a controlled grid resource sharing environment. These effects that are presented may be useful, while new designs are proposed to take the advantage of SLAs at the meta-scheduler level.