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A performance evaluation model for users’ satisfaction in federated clouds

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Cloud federation has been proposed as a new model enabling Cloud providers to cooperate and exchange resources among multiple Clouds to provide uninterrupted services and fulfil the requirements of Cloud users. To sustain the many benefits offered by this environment, it is crucial to have an accurate performance evaluation model. However, evaluating the performance of the federated Clouds environment is challenging for several reasons: the dynamic nature of this environment, the exponential growth of users and the diversity of requests. Therefore, to better satisfy user requests in the federated Clouds environment, we propose in this paper a performance evaluation model using an open Jackson network. Our model considers the key characteristics of the Cloud, such as the diversity of Cloud services and their exponential growth (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), as well as the increasing number of user requests, to obtain essential performance metrics, including response time and utilization. These two parameters are obtained analytically and are used to quantify the elasticity of the federated Clouds environment. Several experiments were carried out to evaluate the proposed solution. The results showed that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art and it is usefulness for designing real cloud computing systems.

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The development environment we used in our work is an open-source program (MATLAB R2007b). It is available online (https://agetintopc.com/matlab-2007-full-setup-free-download/). All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article.

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ZC: Considerable contributions to the conception or design of the work; The analysis and interpretation of results; Drafting the work. HN: Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved; Revising the work critically for important intellectual content; Final approval of the version to be published. LO (Lekadir Ouiza) and GN: They participated in the revision of the Analytical Modeling section, in the writing of some sections, as well as in the analysis and interpretation of the results. LO (Linda Ouchaou): She participated in the writing of some sections, as well as in the analysis and interpretation of the results.

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Chafai, Z., Nacer, H., Lekadir, O. et al. A performance evaluation model for users’ satisfaction in federated clouds. Cluster Comput (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04231-3

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