A Semi-structured Overlay for Multi-attribute Range Queries in Cloud Computing

In recent years, Cloud computing is considered the next-generation computing paradigm. Cloud services could be broadly classified as software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). However, most cloud providers only pay attention to certain services. This makes users vex about which cloud provider to be chosen, and when they need different services. Therefore, integrating these computing resources to satisfy users’ various requirements is an important issue. In this study, we present a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) resource search mechanism which adopts P2P networking technologies to orchestrate all the computing resources. Through this P2P resource search mechanism, cloud users can discover the computing resources in different cloud provides.