Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Negotiating and Enforcing QoS and SLAs in Grid and Cloud Computing

  • Conference paper
Book cover Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 5529))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

Emerging grid computing infrastructures such as cloud computing can only become viable alternatives for the enterprise if they can provide stable service levels for business processes and SLA-based costing. In this paper we describe and apply a three-step approach to map SLA and QoS requirements of business processes to such infrastructures. We start with formalization of service capabilities and business process requirements. We compare them and, if we detect a performance or reliability gap, we dynamically improve performance of individual services deployed in grid and cloud computing environments. Here we employ translucent replication of services. An experimental evaluation in Amazon EC2 verified our approach.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Garfinkel, S.: An evaluation of amazon’s grid computing services: Ec2, s3 and sqs. Technical report tr-08-07, School for Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (July 2007)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bodık, P., Fox, A., Jordan, M.I., Patterson, D., Banerjee, A., Jagannathan, R., Su, T., Tenginakai, S., Turner, B., Ingalls, J.: Advanced Tools for Operators at Amazon.com. In: The First Annual Workshop on Autonomic Computing (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Papazoglou, M.P., Traverso, P., Dustdar, S., Leymann, F.: Service-oriented computing: State of the art and research challenges. Computer 40(11), 38–45 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Stantchev, V., Malek, M.: Architectural Translucency in Service-oriented Architectures. IEE Proceedings - Software 153(1), 31–37 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Eicker, S., Spies, T., Kahl, C.: Software Visualization in the Context of Service-Oriented Architectures. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (Vissoft 2007), pp. 108–111. IEEE, Los Alamitos (2007)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  6. Zhang, J., Chang, C.K., Chung, J.-Y., Kim, S.W.: Ws-net: a petri-net based specification model for web services. In: IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004. Proceedings, July 6-9, 2004, pp. 420–427 (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Reinicke, M., Streitberger, W., Eymann, T.: Evaluation of Service Selection Procedures in Service Oriented Computing Networks. Multi Agent and Grid Systems 1(4), 271–285 (2005)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  8. Frolund, S., Koistinen, J.: Quality of services specification in distributed object systems design. In: COOTS 1998: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS), Berkeley, CA, USA, p. 1. USENIX Association (1998)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Ludwig, H., Keller, A., Dan, A., King, R.P., Franck, R.: Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) Language Specification. IBM Corporation (2002)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B.: WSOL-Web Service Offerings Language. In: Bussler, C.J., McIlraith, S.A., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds.) CAiSE 2002 and WES 2002. LNCS, vol. 2512, pp. 57–67. Springer, Heidelberg (2002); (revised papers)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  11. Lamanna, D.D., Skene, J., Emmerich, W.: SLAng: A Language for Defining Service Level Agreements. In: Proc. of the 9th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems-FTDCS, pp. 100–106 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Andrieux, A., Czajkowski, K., Dan, A., Keahey, K., Ludwig, H., Pruyne, J., Rofrano, J., Tuecke, S., Xu, M.: Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement). Global Grid Forum GRAAP-WG, Draft (August 2004)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Makripoulias, Y., Makris, C., Panagis, Y., Sakkopoulos, E., Adamopoulou, P., Pontikaki, M., Tsakalidis, A.: Towards Ubiquitous Computing with Quality of Web Service Support. Upgrade, The European Journal for the Informatics Professional VI(5), 29–34 (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Yau, S.S., Wang, Y., Huang, D., Hoh, P.: Situation-aware contract specification language for middleware for ubiquitous computing. In: The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. FTDCS 2003. Proceedings, May 28-30, 2003, pp. 93–99 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  15. Zeng, L., Benatallah, B., Ngu, A.H.H., Dumas, M., Kalagnanam, J., Chang, H.: QoS-aware middleware for Web services composition. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 30(5), 311–327 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Canfora, G., Di Penta, M., Esposito, R., Villani, M.L.: An approach for QoS-aware service composition based on genetic algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 1069–1075 (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Solberg, A., Amundsen, S., Aagedal, J.Ø., Eliassen, F.: A Framework for QoS-Aware Service Composition. In: Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Tokairin, Y., Yamanaka, K., Takahashi, H., Suganuma, T., Shiratori, N.: An effective qos control scheme for ubiquitous services based on context information management. cec-eee, 619–625 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Abdennadher, N., Boesch, R.: Deploying phylip phylogenetic package on a large scale distributed system. In: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, pp. 673–678 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Abdennadher, N., Boesch, R.: A scheduling algorithm for high performance peer-to-peer platform. In: Lehner, W., Meyer, N., Streit, A., Stewart, C. (eds.) Euro-Par Workshops 2006. LNCS, vol. 4375, pp. 126–137. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  21. Ibach, P., Stantchev, V., Keller, C.: Daedalus a peer-to-peer shared memory system for ubiquitous computing. In: Nagel, W.E., Walter, W.V., Lehner, W. (eds.) Euro-Par 2006. LNCS, vol. 4128, pp. 961–970. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  22. Wanek, H., Schikuta, E., Haq, I.U.: Grid workflow optimization regarding dynamically changing resources and conditions. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  23. Schikuta, E., Mach, W.: Optimized workflow orchestration of parallel database aggregate operations on a heterogenous grid. In: The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008), Portland, Ohio, USA. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  24. Stantchev, V., Schröpfer, C.: Techniques for service level enforcement in web-services based systems. In: Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS 2008), pp. 7–14. ACM, New York (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  25. Krallmann, H., Schröpfer, C., Stantchev, V., Offermann, P.: Enabling autonomous self-optimization in service-oriented systems. In: Proceedings of The 8th International Workshop on Autonomous Systems - Self Organisation, Management and Control, Berlin, New York, pp. 127–134. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  26. Schropfer, C., Binshtok, M., Shimony, S.E., Dayan, A., Brafman, R., Offermann, P., Holschke, O.: Introducing preferences over NFPs into service selection in SOA. In: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing - International Workshop on Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service Oriented Computing (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  27. Avizienis, A., Laprie, J.-C., Randell, B., Landwehr, C.: Basic concepts and taxonomy of dependable and secure computing. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 1(1), 11–33 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Brown, A., Patterson, D.A.: Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems. In: Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  29. Polze, A., Schwarz, J., Malek, M.: Automatic generation of fault-tolerant corba-services. Tools, 205 (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Cristian, F., Aghili, H., Strong, R., Dolev, D.: Atomic broadcast: from simple message diffusion to byzantine agreement. Inf. Comput. 118(1), 158–179 (1995)

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  31. Laranjeira, L.A., Malek, M., Jenevein, R.: Nest: a nested-predicate scheme for fault tolerance. Transactions on Computers 42(11), 1303–1324 (1993)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Yu, H., Vahdat, A.: The costs and limits of availability for replicated services. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 24(1), 70–113 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Stantchev, V.: Effects of Replication on Web Service Performance in WebSphere. Icsi tech report 2008-03, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California 94704, USA (February 2008)

    Google Scholar 

  34. Stantchev, V., Malek, M.: Addressing Web Service Performance by Replication at the Operating System Level. In: ICIW 2008: Proceedings of the 2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, pp. 696–701. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2008)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  35. Microsoft. Comparing Web Service Performance: WS Test 1.1 Benchmark Results for .NET 2.0, NET 1.1, Sun One/ JWSDP 1.5 and IBM WebSphere 6.0 (2006), http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/content/NET2Benchmarks

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

    Vladimir Stantchev

  2. Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Vladimir Stantchev & Christian Schröpfer

  3. FOM Fachhochschule fuer Oekonomie und Management, Berlin, Germany

    Vladimir Stantchev

Authors
  1. Vladimir Stantchev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Christian Schröpfer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Applied Sicences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Rue Prairie 4, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nabil Abdennadher

  2. Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Dana Petcu

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Stantchev, V., Schröpfer, C. (2009). Negotiating and Enforcing QoS and SLAs in Grid and Cloud Computing. In: Abdennadher, N., Petcu, D. (eds) Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01671-4_3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01671-4_3

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-01670-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-01671-4

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation