Title: How to monitor QoS in cloud infrastructures: the QoSMONaaS approach

Authors: Giuseppe Cicotti; Luigi Coppolino; Salvatore D'Antonio; Luigi Romano

Addresses: Department of Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Isola C4, 80143, Naples, Italy ' Department of Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Isola C4, 80143, Naples, Italy ' Department of Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Isola C4, 80143, Naples, Italy ' Department of Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Isola C4, 80143, Naples, Italy

Abstract: Cloud computing provides a new paradigm to enable on-demand delivery of computing resources such as infrastructure, platforms and software as utilities to customers. When moving applications and/or data in the cloud, numerous challenges exist in leveraging the full potential that cloud computing promises. In this paper we address the challenging issue of QoS monitoring in a cloud environment. The availability of a dependable (i.e., reliable and timely) QoS monitoring facility is key for the real take up of cloud computing, since - by allowing organisations to receive the full value of cloud computing services - it would increase the level of trust they would place in this emerging technology. In this paper, we present a dependable QoS monitoring facility which relies on the 'as a service' paradigm, and can thus be made available to virtually all cloud users in a seamless way. Such a facility is called QoSMONaaS, which stands for 'quality of service monitoring as a service'. Details are given about the internal design and current implementation of the proposed facility.

Keywords: SLA compliance monitoring; service-level agreements; cloud computing; quality of service; QoS monitoring; anonymisation; cloud infrastructures; trust.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.071359

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.11 No.1, pp.29 - 45

Received: 26 Dec 2012
Accepted: 23 May 2013
Published online: 22 Aug 2015 *

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