HS4MC - Hierarchical SLA-based Service Selection for Multi-Cloud Environments

Soodeh Farokhi, Foued Jrad, Ivona Brandic, Achim Streit

2014

Abstract

Cloud computing popularity is growing rapidly and consequently the number of companies offering their services in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is increasing. The diversity and usage benefits of IaaS offers are encouraging SaaS providers to lease resources from the Cloud instead of operating their own data centers. However, the question remains for them how to, on the one hand, exploit Cloud benefits to gain less maintenance overheads and on the other hand, maximize the satisfactions of customers with a wide range of requirements. The complexity of addressing these issues prevent many SaaS providers to benefit from the Cloud infrastructures. In this paper, we propose HS4MC approach for automatic service selection by considering SLA claims of SaaS providers. The novelty of our approach lies in the utilization of prospect theory for the service ranking that represents a natural choice for scoring of comparable services due to the users preferences. The HS4MC approach first constructs a set of SLAs based on the given accumulated SaaS provider requirements. Then, it selects a set of services that best fulfills the SLAs. We evaluate our approach in a simulated environment by comparing it with a state-of-the-art utility-based algorithm. The evaluation results show that our approach selects services that more effectively satisfy the SLAs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Farokhi S., Jrad F., Brandic I. and Streit A. (2014). HS4MC - Hierarchical SLA-based Service Selection for Multi-Cloud Environments . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: MultiCloud, (CLOSER 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 722-734. DOI: 10.5220/0004979707220734

in Bibtex Style

@conference{multicloud14,
author={Soodeh Farokhi and Foued Jrad and Ivona Brandic and Achim Streit},
title={HS4MC - Hierarchical SLA-based Service Selection for Multi-Cloud Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: MultiCloud, (CLOSER 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={722-734},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004979707220734},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: MultiCloud, (CLOSER 2014)
TI - HS4MC - Hierarchical SLA-based Service Selection for Multi-Cloud Environments
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Farokhi S.
AU - Jrad F.
AU - Brandic I.
AU - Streit A.
PY - 2014
SP - 722
EP - 734
DO - 10.5220/0004979707220734