A Cloud Oriented Approach for People-Provided Services

Abstract

Web 2.0 started a paradigm shift concerning content generation. Users spend hours browsing and producing contents to share, most of the times, freely. During these activities, their laptops and home PCs are considerably underused. By combining the amount of idle processing capacity with increasingly fast internet accesses, every computer can be considered as a computational "nearby" resource. The question is: what to do with them? This paper explores how these resources can be used to give something back to the user in a secure and private way.Cloud computing, dynamic bandwidth provisioning, grid, user grown revenue.

The Building Blocks of a PaaS

“…The work presented in the paper follows the authors' previous work [11], where a distributed cloud computing scenario was proposed and PaaS was deemed as the ideal abstraction layer from the point of view of a software developer. The previous work identifies the key stakeholders on the distributed architecture, and proposes possible streams of revenue or rewards for each player [12].…”

“…Another important goal is related to the previous work presented in [11,13], where we discuss the incorporation of off-premises computers (personal computers or servers-user nodes) into the cloud's resources to be managed by the PaaS. In this case, the user nodes are incorporated (in some extent, user configured) into the cloud's available resources and may be used to host and run third party web applications.…”