Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models
Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models
Performance and stability of communication networks via robust exponential bounds
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On maximizing service-level-agreement profits
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Managing energy and server resources in hosting centers
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
On balancing the load in a clustered web farm
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach
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The Vision of Autonomic Computing
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On admission control for profit maximization of networked service providers
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Dynamic resource allocation for shared data centers using online measurements
SIGMETRICS '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Sharc: Managing CPU and Network Bandwidth in Shared Clusters
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Brief announcement: Cataclysm: handling extreme overloads in internet services
Proceedings of the twenty-third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
SLA based profit optimization in autonomic computing systems
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
A network service curve approach for the stochastic analysis of networks
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Autonomic Self-Optimization According to Business Objectives
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Assessing the Robustness of Self-Managing Computer Systems under Highly Variable Workloads
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Utility Functions in Autonomic Systems
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Statistical analysis of the generalized processor sharing scheduling discipline
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On model-driven self-engineering of inter-domain traffic
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Rethinking the Use of Models in Software Architecture
QoSA '08 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Quality of Software-Architectures: Models and Architectures
Model Identification for Energy-Aware Management of Web Service Systems
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Active Energy-Aware Management of Business-Process Based Applications
ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
A framework for QoS-based Web service contracting
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Run-time resource management in SOA virtualized environments
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Autonomic microcell assignment in massively distributed online virtual environments
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Autonomic service hosting for large-scale distributed MOVE-services
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Black-box performance models for virtualized web service applications
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Joint admission control and resource allocation in virtualized servers
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Autonomic computing control of composed web services
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
Per-flow optimal service selection for Web services based processes
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Approximating passage time distributions in queueing models by Bayesian expansion
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warm intelligence heuristics for component deployment
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Stochastic Model for QoS Assessment in Multi-tier Web Services
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Host selection through collective decision
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Defragmenting the cloud using demand-based resource allocation
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Nowadays, large service centers provide computational capacity to many customers by sharing a pool of IT resources. The service providers and their customers negotiate utility based Service Level Agreement (SLA) to determine the costs and penalties on the base of the achieved performance level. The system is often based on a multi-tier architecture to serve requests and autonomic techniques have been implemented to manage varying workload conditions. The service provider would like to maximize the SLA revenues, while minimizing its operating costs. The system we consider is based on a centralized network dispatcher which controls the allocation of applications to servers, the request volumes at various servers and the scheduling policy at each server. The dispatcher can also decide to turn ON or OFF servers depending on the system load. This paper designs a resource allocation scheduler for such multi-tier autonomic environments so as to maximize the profits associated with multiple class SLAs. The overall problem is NP-hard. We develop heuristic solutions by implementing a local-search algorithm. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the benefits of our approach.