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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Maria Toeroe, Montreal, CA;
Maria Toeroe, Montreal, CA;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
There is provided a method for applying a penalty to a cloud service provider, while upgrading resources in a system providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), for improved maintenance of resources according to a service level agreement (SLA), comprising iteratively: detecting a change in a number of expected resources or a number of provided resources; and upon determining that a previous unavailability event was ongoing, calculating the penalty for the previous unavailability event using a quadratic proportional function. The method also comprises computing a total penalty as the sum of the penalties for each previous unavailability event; and applying the total penalty to the cloud service provider of the IaaS. There is provided a method and network node for upgrading resources in a system based on dependencies and service level agreement (SLA) requirement including a penalty for outage of the resources, wherein calculating the penalty comprises using the quadratic proportional function.