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Multiobjective monitoring for SLA compliance

Sommers et al., 2009

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12948364270152720084
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Sommers J
Barford P
Duffield N
Ron A
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

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Service level agreements (SLAs) define performance guarantees made by service providers, eg, in terms of packet loss, delay, delay variation, and network availability. In this paper, we describe a new active measurement methodology to accurately monitor whether …
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