Meriam Mahjoub, Afef Mdhaffar, Riadh Ben Halima, M. Jmaiel
{"title":"A Comparative Study of the Current Cloud Computing Technologies and Offers","authors":"Meriam Mahjoub, Afef Mdhaffar, Riadh Ben Halima, M. Jmaiel","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.28","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Computing is a powerful and flexible software environment, which delegates the material's management and in which users pay as they go. The migration of enterprise applications on the Cloud is increasing. Most of these applications are available with a standardized access to the business logic through Internet. However, the current cloud offers is not always complying with users' needs. For instance, some providers do not guarantee sufficient resource flexibility and high availability. Other users try to build their own Cloud based on open source technologies. In this work, we conduct a survey on current Cloud providers and technologies in order to help users (1) choosing the better cloud offer that compiles with their needs or (2) building their own Cloud infrastructure with the most suitable open source technologies","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134480484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Situation Awareness Using Visual Analytics","authors":"M. Habibi","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.20","url":null,"abstract":"The accurate estimation of environment is a precursor to awareness of the situation around subject(s) of interest. It is imperative that awareness leads to better, improved and safer surroundings and in many cases averts disasters. Following clues from human cognitive nature there have been a significant progress in the development of situation awareness (SAW) models and its implementation in wide ranging industrial, medical and defense applications. The information collected, when utilized in hierarchical order of priority, allows for accurate decision making up to certain degree of confidence. The challenges faced in current applications are the dissemination of information and its demonstration to make artificially intelligent decisions when it goes beyond the perception or comprehension of human mind. In this paper a design methodology is detailed related to adaptive situation awareness (SAW), and the components that are required for its development. The features of intelligent visual analytics and its importance in the development of SAW are also explained. Finally an approach is laid out for arriving at an adaptive SAW with the help of visual analytics model in a bottom up approach, starting from data generation, fusion, logical search algorithm, protocol development and using mathematical modeling for probabilistic approach to a certainty based adaptive SAW model.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116516516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Voulodimos, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Nikoletta Mavrogeorgi, R. Talyansky, D. Kyriazis, Stefanos Koutsoutos, Vasileios Alexandrou, E. K. Kolodner, P. Brand, T. Varvarigou
{"title":"A Unified Management Model for Data Intensive Storage Clouds","authors":"A. Voulodimos, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Nikoletta Mavrogeorgi, R. Talyansky, D. Kyriazis, Stefanos Koutsoutos, Vasileios Alexandrou, E. K. Kolodner, P. Brand, T. Varvarigou","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.18","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud storage has recently appeared as a promising solution to handle the immense volume of data produced in nowadays' rich and ubiquitous digital environment. Existing approaches, however, do not fully address certain significant issues, such as Service Level Agreements, which tend to be rudimentary, and management of cloud systems, which often lacks sophistication. In this paper, we propose the definition and development of management models that systematically describe the resources, services, usage, and requirements in the context of a cloud storage environment. Furthermore, we introduce content oriented SLA Schemas, which are adapted according to the content term involved in each SLA. Combining all this often heterogeneous information in a smart, structured, and uniform manner can provide significant added value, allowing correlations, links and extraction of useful inferences. We thus propose to incorporate these models in a rich Unified Management Model, which will contribute to optimum decision making, data movement, as well as better resource allocation and energy management, also leading to enhanced Quality of Service. The research presented in this paper is work in progress carried out in the context of the VISION Cloud project.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129372844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Energy Consumption Measurement in a Cloud Computing Wireless Testbed","authors":"Vitor Bernardo, M. Curado, T. Staub, T. Braun","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.22","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of the Next Generation Networks, especially the wireless broadband access technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), have increased the number of \"all-IP\" networks across the world. The enhanced capabilities of these access networks has spearheaded the cloud computing paradigm, where the end-users aim at having the services accessible anytime and anywhere. The services availability is also related with the end-user device, where one of the major constraints is the battery lifetime. Therefore, it is necessary to assess and minimize the energy consumed by the end-user devices, given its significance for the user perceived quality of the cloud computing services. In this paper, an empirical methodology to measure network interfaces energy consumption is proposed. By employing this methodology, an experimental evaluation of energy consumption in three different cloud computing access scenarios (including WiMAX) were performed. The empirical results obtained show the impact of accurate network interface states management and application network level design in the energy consumption. Additionally, the achieved outcomes can be used in further software-based models to optimized energy consumption, and increase the Quality of Experience (QoE) perceived by the end-users.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122793640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aris Leivadeas, C. Papagianni, Evripidis Paraskevas, G. Androulidakis, S. Papavassiliou
{"title":"An Architecture for Virtual Network Embedding in Wireless Systems","authors":"Aris Leivadeas, C. Papagianni, Evripidis Paraskevas, G. Androulidakis, S. Papavassiliou","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.17","url":null,"abstract":"The cloud represents a computing paradigm where scalable virtualized resources are provided ``as a service'' over the Internet. Mobile/wireless clouds of seamlessly integrated wireless networks is the latest technology trend. Moving the ``Test bed as a Service'' notion to the wireless cloud, enables ordering of user slices for experimentation on wireless test beds, scattered across multiple, federated, possibly heterogeneous research laboratories. In this study, we design and implement a wireless resource management framework for the delivery of \"Test bed as a service'', over a cloud of 802.11b/g resources. The proposed framework is denoted as Virtual Network Embedding in Wireless Systems.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131132962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience Aspects of Autonomic Cooperative Communications in Context of Cloud Networking","authors":"M. Wódczak","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.24","url":null,"abstract":"The desire for ubiquitous, seamless and resilient access to content and services builds up momentum for cutting edge technologies such as cooperative transmission, autonomic communications and cloud networking. Cooperative transmission, being one of the hottest research topics recently, capitalises on the exploitation of orthogonal resource in the spatio-temporal domain to provide diversity through selected relay nodes. At the same time, the paradigm of autonomic communications is based on the idea that a networked system should be able to act like a living organism and self-manage without any external intervention. Last but not least is the concept of wireless network cloud where equipment and software gets separated so new radio standards can be implemented without changes to the hardware. This paper presents a joint vision of using these concepts for service resilience in the network of the future.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128166770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Martins, J. Pereira, S. Fernandes, João P. Cachopo
{"title":"Towards a Simple Programming Model in Cloud Computing Platforms","authors":"Jorge Martins, J. Pereira, S. Fernandes, João P. Cachopo","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.21","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Computing offers application developers an abstract view of computational resources that can be provisioned on demand over a computer network. This model allows organizations to concentrate on the applications needed to support their core business, instead of having to manage the infrastructure required to run those applications. Yet, even though this approach promises very compelling benefits, there is still a lack of programming models capable of bringing the power of parallel programming into the hands of ordinary programmers. In this paper we tackle this problem by proposing the use of the Fénix Framework as the means of exposing a simple and intuitive programming model for the cloud, while still attaining scalability on par with other Cloud Computing platforms. We claim that may be achieved by integrating the Fénix Framework into the Cloud-TM platform, which is being developed as a self-optimized middleware platform aimed at simplifying the development and administration of applications deployed on Cloud Computing infrastructures. We validate our claims by describing an initial prototype that provides a simple integration of the Fénix Framework with the persistence tier of Cloud-TM in such a way that it allowed us to run a previously developed benchmark application without changing any of its code to adapt it to the cloud platform.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129904130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Dynamic Computing Infrastructures over Distributed Clouds","authors":"Pierre Riteau","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.27","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of cloud computing infrastructures brings new ways to build and manage computing systems, with the flexibility offered by virtualization technologies. In this context, this PhD thesis focuses on two principal objectives. First, leveraging virtualization and cloud computing infrastructures to build distributed large scale computing platforms from multiple cloud providers, allowing to run software requiring large amounts of computation power. Second, developing mechanisms to make these infrastructures more dynamic. These mechanisms, providing inter-cloud live migration, offer new ways to exploit the inherent dynamic nature of distributed clouds.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"58 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130649939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Massively Parallel Fluid Simulations on Amazon's HPC Cloud","authors":"P. Zaspel, M. Griebel","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.19","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on the results of numerical experiments in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on Amazon's HPC cloud. To this end, we benchmarked our MPI-parallel fluid solver NaSt3DGPF on several HPC compute nodes of the cloud system. Our solver can use CPUs and GPUs to calculate the simulation results. With a pre-requested number of instances we observe for both, CPUs and GPUs, good scalability even for a larger number of parallel processes, provided that the GPUs run in the non-ECC mode. Furthermore, we see a high potential for medium sized parallel compute problems which are typically present in industrial engineering applications.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122726090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"QoE Content Distribution Network for Cloud Architecture","authors":"H. Tran, A. Mellouk, S. Hoceini","doi":"10.1109/NCCA.2011.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCCA.2011.10","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Service has become now a real trend in the development of network services. It is a concept of deporting resources and services on remote servers as opposed to traditional hosting on the user workstation. In fact, cloud services require more bandwidth due to high quality media. Content Distribution Network (CDN) with a mechanism of replication of information among multiple servers is a solution to support high request volume and ameliorate network quality. Integrating Cloud concept into Content Distribution Network (CDN) is an effective approach to improve network quality. In this paper, we propose a Content Distribution Network Cloud Architecture (CDNCA). Our approach is based not only on Quality of Service criteria (QoS) (e.g. round trip time, network hops, loss rate, etc.) but also on the Quality of Experience that represents end-users perception and satisfaction. Experimental results show that CDNCA yields significant improvements over traditional approaches.","PeriodicalId":244026,"journal":{"name":"2011 First International Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133835944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}