QoS Metrics for Cloud Computing Services Evaluation

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Author(s)

Amid Khatibi Bardsiri 1,* Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi 2

1. Computer Engineering Department, Bardsir Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

2. Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.12.04

Received: 11 Jan. 2014 / Revised: 2 May 2014 / Accepted: 17 Aug. 2014 / Published: 8 Nov. 2014

Index Terms

Cloud Computing, Evaluation, Quality of Service, Metric

Abstract

Cloud systems are transforming the Information Technology trade by facultative the companies to provide admission to their structure and also software products to the membership foundation. Because of the vast range within the delivered Cloud solutions, from the customer’s perspective of an aspect, it's emerged as troublesome to decide whose providers they need to utilize and then what's the thought of his or her option. Especially, employing suitable metrics is vital in assessing practices. Nevertheless, to the most popular of our knowledge, there's no methodical explanation relating to metrics for estimating Cloud products and services. QoS (Quality of Service) metrics playing an important role in selecting Cloud providers and also optimizing resource utilization efficiency. While many reports have got to devote to exploitation QoS metrics, relatively not much equipment supports the remark and investigation of QoS metrics of Cloud programs. To guarantee a specialized product is published, describing metrics for assessing the QoS might be an essential necessity. So, this text suggests various QoS metrics for service vendors, especially thinking about the consumer’s worry. This article provides the metrics list may stand to help the future study and also assessment within the field of Cloud service's evaluation.

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Amid Khatibi Bardsiri, Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi, "QoS Metrics for Cloud Computing Services Evaluation", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.6, no.12, pp.27-33, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2014.12.04

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