scholarly journals PE2 - A Service Oriented Meta Task Scheduling Framework in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is an emerging computing environment which facilitates on demand services. As it contributes a large pool of computing resources, scheduling of tasks in an efficient manner is one of the main problems. Poor allocation of tasks affects the performance of the whole system. Hence it is very important to schedule the tasks for better utilization of resources by allocating them properly to particular resources in particular time. Efficient scheduling algorithms fulfill the user requirements and also satisfy the needs of the cloud service providers without affecting the performance of the environment. Execution Time based Sufferage Algorithm (ETSA), Cost and Completion Time based Sufferage Algorithm (CCTSA) and Modified Artificial Fish Swarm(MAFSA) Algorithm are efficient task scheduling approaches developed in cloud environment. These algorithms considered the parameters such as makespan, cost and resource utilization while scheduling the tasks and produced better performance. This paper presents a scheduling framework which converts the above said algorithms in to services and deployed in the cloud. Depends on the user’s requirements, the services will be delivered.

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
Babu Rajendiran ◽  
Jayashree Kanniappan

Nowadays, many business organizations are operating on the cloud environment in order to diminish their operating costs and to select the best service from many cloud providers. The increasing number of Cloud Services available on the market encourages the cloud consumer to be conscious in selecting the most apt Cloud Service Provider that satisfies functionality, as well as QoS parameters. Many disciplines of computer-based applications use standardized ontology to represent information in their fields that indicate the necessity of an ontology-based representation. The proposed generic model can help service consumers to identify QoS parameters interrelations in the cloud services selection ontology during run-time, and for service providers to enhance their business by interpreting the various relations. The ontology has been developed using the intended attributes of QoS from various service providers. A generic model has been developed and it is tested with the developed ontology.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Chithambaramani Ramalingam ◽  
Prakash Mohan

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of cloud consumers. Numerous new cloud service providers have been introduced to the market with unique features that assist service developers collaborate and migrate services among multiple cloud service providers to address the varying requirements of cloud consumers. Many interfaces and proprietary application programming interfaces (API) are available for migration and collaboration services among cloud providers, but lack standardization efforts. The target of the research work was to summarize the issues involved in semantic cloud portability and interoperability in the multi-cloud environment and define the standardization effort imminently needed for migrating and collaborating services in the multi-cloud environment.


Author(s):  
Ravi Mahadevan ◽  
Neelamegam Anbazhagan

<span>Online Nowadays, the enterprises &amp; individuals are contributing their workloads on cloud service providers which are going to increase on daily basis. There are   large amount CSP are available to offer virtualized and dynamic resource on pay and use basis. However, there are almost CSP failed to maintain quality of service (QOS) and minimal resource optimization. Some of the existing approaches are highly dedicated on scheduling policy but, it does not considered reliable services with optimized QOS. To offer best solution of above problem, the framework proposes Enhanced Minimal Resource Optimization based Scheduling Algorithm to minimize the resources and maintain the QOS.  The method avoids delay in Request-Response model in cloud environment. To avoid overload for resource allocation, the proposed design utilized optimized scheduling policy.  Proposed mechanisms utilized optimized service brokering policy to reduce the delay response in cloud environment. The framework also help cloud user to prefer best CSP according to their prior services. The method offers rising trend of resource based structure to reduce the placement churn extensively. Proposed system utilized efficient scheduling policy to transmit data request to CSP with minimal data processing time. The entire utilization is to improve the QOS of cloud service provider in the features of multi-dimensional resource. Based on experimental evaluations, proposed technique improves the CPT (Computation Processing Time) 301.72 milliseconds, BU (Bandwidth Utilization) 20 Mbps, CPUU (CPU Utilization) 5% &amp; MRU (Memory Resource Utilization) 3% on given input parameters compare than existing methodology.</span>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatema Rashid

With the tremendous growth of available digital data, the use of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are gaining more popularity, since these types of services promise to provide convenient and efficient storage services to end-users by taking advantage of a new set of benefits and savings offered by cloud technologies in terms of computational, storage, bandwidth, and transmission costs. In order to achieve savings in storage, CSPs often employ data dedplication techniques to eliminate duplicated data. However, benefits gained through these techniques have to balanced against users' privacy concerns, as these techniques typically require full access to data. In this thesis, we propose solutions for different data types (text, image and video) for secure data deduplication in cloud environments. Our schemes allow users to upload their data in a secure and efficient manner such that neither a semi-honest CSP nor a malicious user can access or compromise the security of the data. We use different image and video processing techniques, such as data compression, in order to further improve the efficiency of our proposed schemes. The security of the deduplication schemes is provided by applying suitable encryption schemes and error correcting codes. Moreover, we propose proof of storage protocols including Proof of Retrievability (POR) and Proof of Ownership (POW) so that users of cloud storage services are able to ensure that their data has been saved in the cloud without tampering or manipulation. Experimental results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatema Rashid

With the tremendous growth of available digital data, the use of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are gaining more popularity, since these types of services promise to provide convenient and efficient storage services to end-users by taking advantage of a new set of benefits and savings offered by cloud technologies in terms of computational, storage, bandwidth, and transmission costs. In order to achieve savings in storage, CSPs often employ data dedplication techniques to eliminate duplicated data. However, benefits gained through these techniques have to balanced against users' privacy concerns, as these techniques typically require full access to data. In this thesis, we propose solutions for different data types (text, image and video) for secure data deduplication in cloud environments. Our schemes allow users to upload their data in a secure and efficient manner such that neither a semi-honest CSP nor a malicious user can access or compromise the security of the data. We use different image and video processing techniques, such as data compression, in order to further improve the efficiency of our proposed schemes. The security of the deduplication schemes is provided by applying suitable encryption schemes and error correcting codes. Moreover, we propose proof of storage protocols including Proof of Retrievability (POR) and Proof of Ownership (POW) so that users of cloud storage services are able to ensure that their data has been saved in the cloud without tampering or manipulation. Experimental results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.


Author(s):  
Mohammed Radi ◽  
Ali Alwan ◽  
Abedallah Abualkishik ◽  
Adam Marks ◽  
Yonis Gulzar

Cloud computing has become a practical solution for processing big data. Cloud service providers have heterogeneous resources and offer a wide range of services with various processing capabilities. Typically, cloud users set preferences when working on a cloud platform. Some users tend to prefer the cheapest services for the given tasks, whereas other users prefer solutions that ensure the shortest response time or seek solutions that produce services ensuring an acceptable response time at a reasonable cost. The main responsibility of the cloud service broker is identifying the best data centre to be used for processing user requests. Therefore, to maintain a high level of quality of service, it is necessity to develop a service broker policy that is capable of selecting the best data centre, taking into consideration user preferences (e.g. cost, response time). This paper proposes an efficient and cost-effective plan for a service broker policy in a cloud environment based on the concept of VIKOR. The proposed solution relies on a multi-criteria decision-making technique aimed at generating an optimized solution that incorporates user preferences. The simulation results show that the proposed policy outperforms most recent policies designed for the cloud environment in many aspects, including processing time, response time, and processing cost. KEYWORDS Cloud computing, data centre selection, service broker, VIKOR, user priorities


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.


Author(s):  
Khalid Al-Begain ◽  
Michal Zak ◽  
Wael Alosaimi ◽  
Charles Turyagyenda

The chapter presents current security concerns in the Cloud Computing Environment. The cloud concept and operation raise many concerns for cloud users since they have no control of the arrangements made to protect the services and resources offered. Additionally, it is obvious that many of the cloud service providers will be subject to significant security attacks. Some traditional security attacks such as the Denial of Service attacks (DoS) and distributed DDoS attacks are well known, and there are several proposed solutions to mitigate their impact. However, in the cloud environment, DDoS becomes more severe and can be coupled with Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks. The chapter presents a general overview of cloud security, the types of vulnerabilities, and potential attacks. The chapter further presents a more detailed analysis of DDoS attacks' launch mechanisms and well-known DDoS defence mechanisms. Finally, the chapter presents a DDoS-Mitigation system and potential future research directions.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1511-1554
Author(s):  
Khalid Al-Begain ◽  
Michal Zak ◽  
Wael Alosaimi ◽  
Charles Turyagyenda

The chapter presents current security concerns in the Cloud Computing Environment. The cloud concept and operation raise many concerns for cloud users since they have no control of the arrangements made to protect the services and resources offered. Additionally, it is obvious that many of the cloud service providers will be subject to significant security attacks. Some traditional security attacks such as the Denial of Service attacks (DoS) and distributed DDoS attacks are well known, and there are several proposed solutions to mitigate their impact. However, in the cloud environment, DDoS becomes more severe and can be coupled with Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks. The chapter presents a general overview of cloud security, the types of vulnerabilities, and potential attacks. The chapter further presents a more detailed analysis of DDoS attacks' launch mechanisms and well-known DDoS defence mechanisms. Finally, the chapter presents a DDoS-Mitigation system and potential future research directions.


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