Model-Based Extraction of Knowledge about the Effect of Cloud Application Context on Application Service Cost and Quality of Service

Table 3

Mapping of measured data and proposed cloud application context.

Parameter ID	Parameter domain	Parameter name	Unit of measurement	Related cloud application context attribute (Figure 1)
1	Application	Average CPU utilisation	%	App. resource usage profile: CPU
2	Application	Number of virtual CPU cores	Integer	App. resource usage profile: CPU
3	Application	Network: average incoming byte rate	B/s	App. resource usage profile: network
4	Application	Network: ingress traffic	GB	App. resource usage profile: network
5	Application	Network: average outgoing byte rate	B/s	App. resource usage profile: network
6	Application	Network: egress traffic	GB	App. resource usage profile: network
7	Application	Average RAM used	MB	App. resource usage profile: RAM
8	Application	Average disk read bytes rate	B/s	App. resource usage profile: storage
9	Application	Average disk write bytes rate	B/s	App. resource usage profile: storage
10	Application	Used storage	GB	App. resource usage profile: storage
11	Application	Request response time	ms	SLA requirements
12	Application	Number of parallel users	Integer	Service users: concurrent users
13	Deployment	Instance vCPU cores	Integer	Resource properties: CPU
14	Deployment	Instance RAM	MB	Resource properties: RAM
15	Deployment	Instance storage	GB	Resource properties: storage
16	Deployment	Providern	Not applicable	Infrastructure provider
17	Deployment	Price	USD	Pricing model and resource price