Automation of Discovery and Aggregation of Cloud Services

Author(s):  
Sreedevi R. Nagarmunoli ◽  
Nandini S. Sidnal

Cloud computing is a technology where IT-related resources are dynamically provided as a service to the customers through Internet. The customer can demand for the services dynamically from Cloud Service Provider (CSP)s, take them on lease based on Service Level Agreement (SLA), release the resources after completion of task and pay for what is used. The required services may not be available from a single CSP. There are many CSPs providing multiple services with different Quality of Service (QoS). The customer has to discover the available services with the expected QoS which is one of the major challenges to be solved in cloud computing today. In this paper we dynamically create a repository of the cloud services and aggregate them whenever there is a demand for service and then derive that the services obtained from the repository are time efficient as compared to direct service discovery.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1457-1462

Cloud computing technology has gained the attention of researchers in recent years. Almost every application is using cloud computing in one way or another. Virtualization allows running many virtual machines on a single physical computer by sharing its resources. Users can store their data on datacenter and run their applications from anywhere using the internet and pay as per service level agreement documents accordingly. It leads to an increase in demand for cloud services and may decrease the quality of service. This paper presents a priority-based selection of virtual machines by cloud service provider. The virtual machines in the cloud datacenter are configured as Amazon EC2 and algorithm is simulated in cloud-sim simulator. The results justify that proposed priority-based virtual machine algorithm shortens the makespan, by 11.43 % and 5.81 %, average waiting time by 28.80 % and 24.50%, and cost of using the virtual machine by 21.24% and 11.54% as compared to FCFS and ACO respectively, hence improving quality of service.


2013 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 196-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Zhu Hong ◽  
Nueraimaiti Aimaier ◽  
Zhu Guo Li

Cloud Computing is not a revolution; it’s an evolution of computer science and technology emerging by leaps and bounds, in order to merge all computer science tools and technologies. Cloud Computing technology is hottest to do research and explore new horizons of next generations of Computer Science. There are number of cloud services providers (Amazon EC2), Rackspace Cloud, Terremark and Google Compute Engine) but still enterprises and common users have a number of concerns over cloud service providers. Still there is lot of weakness, challenges and issues are barrier for cloud service providers in order to provide cloud services according to SLA (Service Level agreement). Especially, service provisioning according to SLAs is core objective of each cloud service provider with maximum performance as per SLA. We have identified those challenges issues, as well as proposed new methodology as “SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services”. Currently, cloud service providers are using “orchestrations” fully or partially to automate service provisioning but we are trying to integrate and drive orchestration flows from SLAs. It would be new approach to provision cloud service and deliver cloud service as per SLA, satisfying QoS standards.


Author(s):  
Dapeng Wang ◽  
Jinsong Wu

This chapter discusses and surveys the concepts, demands, requirements, solutions, opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives and potential of Carrier Grade Cloud Computing (CGCC). This chapter also introduces a carrier grade distributed cloud computing architecture and discusses the benefits and advantages of carrier grade distributed cloud computing. Unlike independent cloud service providers, telecommunication operators may integrate their conventional communications networking capabilities with the new cloud infrastructure services to provide inexpensive and high quality cloud services together with their deep understandings of, and strong relationships with, individual and enterprise customers. The relevant design requirements and challenges may include the performance, scalability, service-level agreement management, security, network optimization, and unified management. The relevant key issues in CGCC designs may include cost effective hardware and software configurations, distributed infrastructure deployment models, and operation processes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Sathiyamoorthy E. ◽  
Karthikeyan P

Cloud computing is a trending area of information technology (IT). In a cloud environment, the Cloud service provider (CSP) provides all the functionalities to the users or customers in terms of services. With the rapid development of cloud computing, the performance of any cloud environment relies on the quality of services (QoS) at the time of providing the services. A service level agreement (SLA) increases the confidence of the user or customer to use the cloud services in a cloud environment. There should be negotiation between the CSP and users to achieve a strong SLA. Many existing SLA models are already developed. However, these models do not concentrate to maintain the quality in a long-time duration period. To solve this issue, a novel SLA model has been proposed in this article by using Fuzzy logic. Both the theoretical and simulation results show the proficiency of the proposed scheme over the existing schemes in a cloud computing environment.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1981-1998
Author(s):  
Dapeng Wang ◽  
Jinsong Wu

This chapter discusses and surveys the concepts, demands, requirements, solutions, opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives and potential of Carrier Grade Cloud Computing (CGCC). This chapter also introduces a carrier grade distributed cloud computing architecture and discusses the benefits and advantages of carrier grade distributed cloud computing. Unlike independent cloud service providers, telecommunication operators may integrate their conventional communications networking capabilities with the new cloud infrastructure services to provide inexpensive and high quality cloud services together with their deep understandings of, and strong relationships with, individual and enterprise customers. The relevant design requirements and challenges may include the performance, scalability, service-level agreement management, security, network optimization, and unified management. The relevant key issues in CGCC designs may include cost effective hardware and software configurations, distributed infrastructure deployment models, and operation processes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Priyanka Bharti ◽  
Rajeev Ranjan ◽  
Bhanu Prasad

Cloud computing provisions and allocates resources, in advance or real-time, to dynamic applications planned for execution. This is a challenging task as the Cloud-Service-Providers (CSPs) may not have sufficient resources at all times to satisfy the resource requests of the Cloud-Service-Users (CSUs). Further, the CSPs and CSUs have conflicting interests and may have different utilities. Service-Level-Agreement (SLA) negotiations among CSPs and CSUs can address these limitations. User Agents (UAs) negotiate for resources on behalf of the CSUs and help reduce the overall costs for the CSUs and enhance the resource utilization for the CSPs. This research proposes a broker-based mediation framework to optimize the SLA negotiation strategies between UAs and CSPs in Cloud environment. The impact of the proposed framework on utility, negotiation time, and request satisfaction are evaluated. The empirical results show that these strategies favor cooperative negotiation and achieve significantly higher utilities, higher satisfaction, and faster negotiation speed for all the entities involved in the negotiation.


2022 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Dhiviya Ram

One of the most unique forms of contracting is apparent in cloud computing. Cloud computing, unlike other conventional methods, has adopted a different approach in the formation of binding contract that will be used for the governance of the cloud. This method is namely the clickwrap agreement. Click wrap agreement follows a take it or leave it basis in which the end users are provided with limited to no option in terms of having a say on the contract that binds them during the use of cloud services. The terms found in the contract are often cloud service provider friendly and will be less favourable to the end user. In this article, the authors examine the terms that are often found in the cloud computing agreement as well as study the benefit that is entailed in adopting this contracting method. This chapter has undertaken a qualitative study that comprises interviews of cloud service providers in Malaysia. Hence, this study is a novel approach that also provides insight in terms of the cloud service provider perspective regarding the click wrap agreement.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Veena Goswami ◽  
Sudhansu Shekhar Patra ◽  
G. B. Mund

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm in which information and computing services can be accessed from a Web browser by clients. Understanding of the characteristics of computer service performance has become critical for service applications in cloud computing. For the commercial success of this new computing paradigm, the ability to deliver guaranteed Quality of Services (QoS) is crucial. Based on the Service level agreement, the requests are processed in the cloud centers in different modes. This paper analyzes a finite-buffer multi-server queuing system where client requests have two arrival modes. It is assumed that each arrival mode is serviced by one or more Virtual machines, and both the modes have equal probabilities of receiving service. Various performance measures are obtained and optimal cost policy is presented with numerical results. The genetic algorithm is employed to search the optimal values of various parameters for the system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 375-385
Author(s):  
Ismail Zahraddeen Yakubu ◽  
Zainab Aliyu Musa ◽  
Lele Muhammed ◽  
Badamasi Ja’afaru ◽  
Fatima Shittu ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Kumar Tiwari ◽  
Sandeep Joshi

It has already been proven that VMs are over-utilized in the initial stages and are underutilized in the later stages. Due to the random utilization of the CPU, resources are sometimes heavily loaded whereas other resources are idle. Load imbalance causes service level agreement (SLA) violations resulting in poor quality of service (QoS) aided by the imperfect management of resources. An effective load balancing mechanism helps to achieve balanced utilization, which maximizes the throughput, availability, and reliability and reduces the response and migration time. The proposed algorithm can effectively minimize the response and the migration time and maximize reliability, and throughput. This research also helps to understand the load balancing policies and analysis of other research works.


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