This article examines the rights of social housing tenants under Australian human charters. Victoria, Queensland and Capital Territory (ACT) have charters which include right to home place obligations on public authorities. However, only in ACT are these duties enforceable eviction proceedings. In Victoria Queensland, must commence separate judicial review proceedings raise arguments. outlines ...

Accounting and billing of cloud resources is vital for the operation of cloud service providers and their tenants. In this paper, we categorize the trust models of current industrial and academic cloud billing solutions, and discuss the problems with these models in terms of degree of trust, scalability and robustness. Based on the analysis, we propose a novel public trust model to ensure natur...

Database benchmarks have been used for decades to load test systems and to compare systems or system configurations with each other. However, their methods and assumptions are hardly suitable for multi-tenant cloud database services. Those systems have to provide both performance isolation of a lot of tenants with dynamic workloads and cloud computing features like scalability, elasticity, and ...

Cloud computing is characterized by shared infrastructure and a decoupling between its operators and tenants. These two characteristics impose new challenges to databases applications hosted in the cloud, namely: (i) how to price database services, (ii) how to isolate database tenants, and (iii) how to optimize database performance on this shared infrastructure. We argue that today’s solutions,...

Only retail tenants pay their landlord a percentage of revenue in addition to the traditional fixed rent. The latter has often been shown to vary widely across stores-inverse to the sales externalities generated by the store. This paper demonstrates that revenue percentages vary widely as well, and positively with fixed rent (sales externalities). It is then argued that existing theoretical exp...

Multipath forwarding has been recently proposed to improve utilization in data centers by leveraging its redundant network design. However, most multipath proposals require significant modifications to the tenants’ network stack and therefore are only feasible in private clouds. In this paper, we propose a multipath packet-forwarding scheme for public clouds that does not require any modificati...

Background: SaaS (Software as a Service) is a services delivery model in Cloud Computing whose applications are remotely hosted by the service provider and available to customers on demand over the Internet. Multi-tenant Architecture (MTA) is an organizational pattern for SaaS that enables a single instance of an application to be hosted on the same hardware and accessed by multiple customers, ...

Cloud Computing is an emerging model of computing where users can leverage the computing infrastructure as a service stack or commodity. The security and privacy concerns of this infrastructure arising from the large co-location of tenants are, however, significant and pose considerable challenges in its widespread deployment. The current work addresses one aspect of the security problem by fac...

Multi-tenancy is a relatively new software architecture principle in the realm of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model. It allows to make full use of the economy of scale, as multiple customers – “tenants” – share the same application and database instance. All the while, the tenants enjoy a highly configurable application, making it appear that the application is deployed on a dedic...