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An interoperable and self-adaptive approach for SLA-based service virtualization in heterogeneous Cloud environments

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Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 32, Issue C

Pages 54 - 68

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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Cloud computing is a newly emerged computing infrastructure that builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented computing, business process management and virtualization. An important characteristic of Cloud-based services is the provision of non-functional guarantees in the form of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), such as guarantees on execution time or price. However, due to system malfunctions, changing workload conditions, hard- and software failures, established SLAs can be violated. In order to avoid costly SLA violations, flexible and adaptive SLA attainment strategies are needed. In this paper we present a self-manageable architecture for SLA-based service virtualization that provides a way to ease interoperable service executions in a diverse, heterogeneous, distributed and virtualized world of services. We demonstrate in this paper that the combination of negotiation, brokering and deployment using SLA-aware extensions and autonomic computing principles are required for achieving reliable and efficient service operation in distributed environments. Heterogeneous Cloud environments need business-oriented autonomic service executions. A novel approach called Service-level agreement-based Service Virtualization. Built on three areas: agreement negotiation, brokering and service deployment. Principles of autonomic computing are used to cope with failures in Clouds. Validated in a simulation environment using a biochemical application.

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March 2014

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