• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.89-94
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• 2023

Cloud-based technology is used in different organizations around the world for various purposes. Using this technology, the service providers provide the service mainly SaaS, PaaS and while the cloud service consumer consumes the services by paying for the service they used or accessed by the principle of "pay per use". The customer of the services can get any services being at different places or locations using different machines or electronic devices. Under the conditions of being well organized and having all necessary infrastructures, the services can be accessed suitably. The identified problem in this study is that cloud providers control and monitor the system or tools by ignoring the calculation and consideration of various faults made from the cloud provider side during service delivery. There are currently problems with ignoring the consumer or client during the monitoring and mentoring system for cloud services consumed at the customer or client level by SLA provisions. The new framework was developed to address the above-mentioned problems. The framework was developed as a unified modeling language. Eight basic components are used to develop the framework. For this research, the researcher developed a prototype by using a selected cloud tool to simulate and java programming language to write a code as well as MySQL to store data during SLA. The researcher used different criteria to validate the developed framework i.e. to validate SLA that is concerned with a cloud service provider, validate what happened when the request from the client-side is less than what is specified in SLA and above what is specified in SLA as well as implementing the monitoring mechanism using the developed Monitoring component. The researcher observed that with the 1st and 3rd criteria the service level agreement was violated and this indicated that if the Service level agreement is monitored or managed only by cloud service prover, there is a violation of LSA. Therefore, the researcher recommended that the service level agreement be managed by both cloud service providers and service consumers in the cloud computing environment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.115-120
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• 2015

As the cloud services, the underlying technology of the digital convergence environment, have been widely adopted in the business, personal information protection has been recognized as one of the major issues to resolve. When cloud services are used to process the personal information, the personal information protection law speculates the establishment of a contract or service level agreement(SLA). This research presents 7 privacy indicators and 13 metrics which can be included in cloud SLA, based on the analysis of related regulation and standards and the SMART(Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Relevant and Timely) model. The proposed indicators are examined using the Focus Group Interview method in terms of materiality and feasibility. The results show that all the proposed indicators are meaningful and useful.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.591-600
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• 2015

SLA (Service Level Agreement) is an essential factor that must be guaranteed to provide a reliable and consistent service to user in cloud computing environment. Especially, a contract between user and service provider with SLA is important in an environment using a cloud service brokerage. The cloud computing is classified into IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS according to IT resources of the various cloud service. The existing SLA is difficult to reflect the quality factors of service, because it only considers factors about the physical Network environment and have no methodological approach. In this paper, we suggested a method to specify the quality characteristics of software and proposed a mechanism and structure that can exchange SLA specification between the service provider and consumer. We defined a meta-model for the SLA specification in the SaaS level, and quality requirements of the SaaS were described by the proposed specification language. Through case studies, we verified proposed specification language that can present a variety of software quality factors. By using the UDDI-based mediation process and architecture to interchange this specification, it is stored in the repository of quality specifications and exchanged during service binding time.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.225-226
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• 2006

A service level agreement (SLA) is a formal contract between a service provider and a subscriber that contains detailed technical specifications called service level specifications (SLSs). In this paper, we propose SLA data analysis system which provides an effective decision-making information to network service provider. The SLA data analysis system executes trend analysis and statistics analysis using SLA violation and refund information. The analysis results are presented in many ways such as tables, graphs.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 2004

For the successful IT operation outsourcing there need appropriate metrics on which both of the service clients and provider agree. The metrics are used to set up the service level objectives, which are manifested in the service level agreement with price. A study of metrics is necessary for the following reasons: First, most of the metrics used today were introduced in the early years of computers and are not satisfactory to both of the service providers and clients. Second, metrics represent the performance of system components but not end-user satisfaction. Third, because the service provider leads the outsourcing agreement, the objectives are specified more favorable to the provider. The objectives should be based on metrics that both sides fully understand and agree on.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.1
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• pp.41-43
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed a new protection scheme of the WDM mesh networks that can utilize the network resources efficiently while satisfying with the recovery time defined in the SLA (service level agreement). The protection scheme and the backup path are selected based on the comparison of the expected protection time with the SLA recovery time. The superior performance of the proposed protection scheme was demonstrated by comparing with ones of the existing protection schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2715-2720
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• 2009

Supporting Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia services in heterogeneous mobile networks is a part of key issue for Three Generation Evolution (3GE) development. A QoS management structure needs to guarantee the QoS of moving users based on an end-to-end negotiation to support the seamless service when MT is moving between the heterogeneous networks. We propose an end-to-end negotiation method based on SLA(Service Level Agreement). For this aim, the SLA control and algorithm for supporting MT's QoS is considered. Simulation is focused on the average delay and packet loss rate, and the results show that our proposed method provides mobile terminals with the optimal performance.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.157-165
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• 2011

The QoS management is an agreement of service user and service provider in B3G networks, and service provider must support proper the network service to service users by the agreement facts. The service provider must provide the QoS method to maintain the agreed service, which manages the detail method of system level from policy level. By the agreement of service policy, the service provider can give the QoS to the service customer with the service agreement. Hence, in this paper we propose a QoS mapping method of heterogeneous networks to provide the customer service through the service agreement based on the SLA of B3G networks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.221-235
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• 2010

Internet service providers provide various security services, such as firewall, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, along with their main Internet services. Those security service users have no idea what kind of quality services they are guaranteed. And therefore, Internet users interest in Security Service Level Agreement(SLA) increases as their interest in secure Internet service increases. However, there wasn't any researches in the S-SLA area domestically and there are only limited SLA indexes related to system or service maintenances at the moment. Therefore, this paper analyses security functions in IPS services and categorize them into common and independent security functions. Finally to improve quality of security services, this paper proposes S-SLA indexes depending on the different security levels. This will be subdivide into agreement on security service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2001

인터넷 서비스의 수요가 급증함에 따라 정보통신서비스 제공기법에서도 사용자에게 보장된 네트워크 품질 제공을 할 수 있도록 SLA(Service Level Agreement) 도입의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 서비스 품질내부자원 활용도를 증가시키고 타 기업간의 경쟁에 효과적으로 대응하기 위해서는 서비스 제공자와 사용자간의 협약인 SLA 제공이 이루어져야 한다. 최근 국내 몇 IDC 업체들로부터 SLA 제공이 시작되고 있으나, 국내 IP 기반 통신서비스 제공업체에서는 SLA 제공이 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 IP 기반 통신망에서 필요한 SLA를 분류하고, 각 SLA에 영향을 미치는 네트워크 요소들을 살펴봄으로써, 기업에서는 SLA 제공을 통해 이용 가능한 네트워크 자원을 최적화 함과 동시에 사용자들에게 품질이 보장된 다양한 서비스를 제공한 수 있게 될 것이다.