Traffic Management for Cloud Federation

Abstract

Abstract. The chapter summarizes activities of COST IC1304 ACROSS European Project corresponding to traffic management for Cloud Federation (CF). In particular, we provide a survey of CF architectures and standardization activities. We present comprehensive multilevel model for traffic management in CF that consists of five levels: Level 5 -Strategies for building CF, Level 4 -Network for CF, Level 3 -Service specification and provision, Level 2 -Service composition and orchestration, and Level 1 -Task service in cloud resources. For each level we propose specific methods and algorithms. The effectiveness of these solutions were verified by simulation and analytical methods. Finally, we also describe specialized simulator for testing CF solution in IoT environment.

Mobile Simulation Environment for Investigating IoT-Cloud Systems

“…As the next step, cloud bursting techniques were developed to share the resources of different clouds, then cloud federations were realized by interoperating formerly separate cloud systems. By overcoming the interoperability issues of public cloud providers and various middleware implementations, the process of creating and managing cloud federations was clarified and applied [94]. There are various reasons to optimize resource management in such federations: to serve more users simultaneously, to increase quality of service, to gain higher profit from resource renting, or to reduce energy consumption or CO 2 emissions.…”