Intelligent End-To-End Resource Virtualization Using Service Oriented Architecture

Service-oriented architecture can be considered as a philosophy or paradigm in organizing and utilizing services and capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. Virtualization provides abstraction and isolation of lower level functionalities, enabling portability of higher level functions and sharing of physical resources. However, dynamics, environmental conditions and increasing complexity / heterogeneity of underlying resources call for adaptive resource handling. In this view an intelligent distributed architecture that enables dynamic user management and control on network-wide resource sharing by using the Service Oriented Architecture concept is presented. Additionally, the proposed architecture supports trading of resources that will enable the transformation of traditional business models.