PSLA: A PaaS Level SLA Description Language

Author

Ge Li ; Pourraz, Frederic ; Moreaux, Patrice

Author_Institution

Savoie Univ., Annecy le vieux, France

fYear

2014

fDate

11-14 March 2014

Firstpage

452

Lastpage

457

Abstract

PaaSs emerge to help SaaS providers to conquer the challenges involved in guaranteeing the QoS of international SaaSs. A well structured machine readable SLA is critical for PaaS providers to automate InterCloud management to serve the worldwide elastic user demands. WS-Agreement is a widely accepted extendible language for describing agreements. In this paper, we propose PSLA, a well structured PaaS Level SLA description language based on WS-Agreement. We summarize and describe the semantic clauses needed to be considered in PaaS level SLA. In particular, some specific characteristics of PaaS are taken into account in PSLA, such as elasticity of workload, undefined metric properties and fuzzy value range.

Keywords

cloud computing; contracts; formal languages; quality of service; InterCloud management automation; PSLA; QoS; SaaS providers; WS-Agreement; elastic user demands; fuzzy value range; international SaaS; machine readable SLA; semantic clauses; service level agreement; undefined metric properties; well structured PaaS level SLA description language; workload elasticity; Business; Cloud computing; Elasticity; Measurement; Quality of service; Semantics; Software as a service; PaaS; QoS; Service Level Agreement (SLA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IC2E.2014.29

Filename

6903510