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State of the Art of Service-Level Agreements in Cloud Computing

Mohammed Alhamad

CONTENTS

14.1  Introduction

14.2  Definition

14.3  Taxonomy of Cloud Computing

14.4  Service-Level Agreements

14.4.1  SLAs for Web Services

14.4.2  SLAs for Grid Computing

14.4.3  SLAs for Cloud Computing

14.4.3.1  Shortcomings of the Proposed Works for SLAs in the Context of Distributed Services

14.5  Performance Measurement Models

14.5.1  SOA Performance Models

14.5.2  Distributed Systems Performance Models

14.5.3  Cloud Computing Performance Models

14.5.3.1  Shortcomings of the Proposed Works for the Above Performance Models

14.6  Conclusion

References

14.1    Introduction

Cloud computing has been the focus of active and extensive research since late 2007. ...