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rSYBL: A Framework for Specifying and Controlling Cloud Services Elasticity

Authors:

Georgiana Copil,

Daniel Moldovan,

Hong-Linh Truong,

Schahram DustdarAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 16, Issue 3

Article No.: 18, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/2925990

Published: 12 August 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Cloud applications can benefit from the on-demand capacity of cloud infrastructures, which offer computing and data resources with diverse capabilities, pricing, and quality models. However, state-of-the-art tools mainly enable the user to specify “if-then-else” policies concerning resource usage and size, resulting in a cumbersome specification process that lacks expressiveness for enabling the control of complex multilevel elasticity requirements.

In this article, first we propose SYBL, a novel language for specifying elasticity requirements at multiple levels of abstraction. Second, we design and develop the rSYBL framework for controlling cloud services at multiple levels of abstractions. To enforce user-specified requirements, we develop a multilevel elasticity control mechanism enhanced with conflict resolution. rSYBL supports different cloud providers and is highly extensible, allowing service providers or developers to define their own connectors to the desired infrastructures or tools. We validate it through experiments with two distinct services, evaluating rSYBL over two distinct cloud infrastructures, and showing the importance of multilevel elasticity control.

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 16, Issue 3

August 2016

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DOI:10.1145/2926746

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Published: 12 August 2016

Accepted: 01 April 2016

Revised: 01 December 2015

Received: 01 October 2014

Published in TOIT Volume 16, Issue 3

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