QoS-aware Autonomic Cloud Computing for ICT Sukhpal Singh and Inderveer Chana Abstract Emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) plays an important role in networking sector by providing services through cloud-based systems. Based on application requirements of cloud users, discovery and allocation of best workload-resource pair is an optimization problem. Acceptable Quality of Service (QoS) cannot be provided to the cloud users until provisioning of resources is offered as a crucial ability. QoS parameters based resource provisioning technique is therefore required for ef ficient scheduling of resources. In this paper, QoS-aware autonomic resource provisioning and scheduling for cloud computing technique has been proposed. The proposed technique caters to provisioned resource distribution and scheduling of resources. The performance of the proposed technique has been evaluated through Cloud environment. The experimental results show that the proposed technique gives better results in terms of execution cost and execution time of different Cloud workloads. Keywords Resource provisioning Á Resource scheduling Á Quality of service Á Autonomic cloud Á Information and communication technologies 1 Introduction Cloud Computing enables resources (Infrastructure, Platform or Software) to be offered as services for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These resources are provided using a pay-as-you-use pricing plan [1]. To satisfy the request of customers, ICT-based service must be provided in accordance with required level of QoS. However, providing dedicated ICT-based Cloud services that S. Singh (&) Á I. Chana Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University, Patiala 147004, Punjab, India e-mail: ssgill@thapar.edu I. Chana e-mail: inderveer@thapar.edu © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 S.C. Satapathy et al. (eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 409, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0135-2_55 569