1 research outputs found
CART, a Decision SLA Model for SaaS Providers to Keep QoS Regarding Availability and Performance
Cloud systems are becoming a powerful tool for business. The evidence of the advantages
of offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS)
is overwhelming. Therefore, for SaaS providers, it is essential to know the virtual resources required to
optimize the service offered and to keep the quality of service (QoS) at the desired levels. This paper presents
an analytic model cloud availability and response time (CART) for obtaining the best tradeoff between
performance, cost, and availability in a cloud system aimed at providing software as a service. The model
aims to guarantee the predetermined availability and response time (RT) agreed with customers in a servicelevel agreement (SLA) contract while minimizing the cost of the system. A client-transparent error recovery
strategy has been considered along with a Poisson traffic model. A sensitivity analysis of the simulated and
real workloads is presented to study how a specific SLA influences the cloud service performance regarding
the guaranteed RT and availability. The results corroborate the goodness of the model proposed, adjusting the
real system accurately. Furthermore, the obtained results provide useful guidelines for cloud or Web-server
designers.This work was supported in part by the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme, in part by the Ministerio de Econom铆a y Competitividad under Contract TIN2017-84553-C2-2-R, and in part by the European Union FEDER through CAPAP-H6 network under Grant TIN2016-81840-REDT. The work done by F. Solsona-Teh脿s was supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya