This document discusses an efficient architectural framework for cloud computing. It begins by providing background on cloud computing and discusses challenges such as security, privacy, and reliability. It then proposes a new architectural framework that separates infrastructure as a service (IaaS) into three sub-modules: IaaS itself, a hypervisor monitoring environment (HME), and resources as a service (RaaS). The HME acts as middleware between IaaS and physical resources, using a hypervisor to allocate resources from a pool managed by RaaS. This proposed framework is intended to improve performance and access speed for cloud computing.
A Virtualization Model for Cloud ComputingSouvik Pal
Cloud Computing is now a very emerging field in the IT industry as well as research field. The advancement of Cloud Computing came up due to fast-growing usage of internet among the people. Cloud Computing is basically on-demand network access to a collection of physical resources which can be provisioned according to the need of cloud user under the supervision of Cloud Service provider interaction. From business prospective, the viable achievements of Cloud Computing and recent developments in Grid computing have brought the platform that has introduced virtualization technology into the era of high performance computing. Virtualization technology is widely applied to modern data center for cloud computing. Virtualization is used computer resources to imitate other computer resources or whole computers. This paper provides a Virtualization model for cloud computing that may lead to faster access and better performance. This model may help to combine self-service capabilities and ready-to-use facilities for computing resources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
This document discusses the evolution of distributed computing from centralized mainframes to modern cloud, grid, and parallel computing systems. It covers key topics like:
- The shift from high-performance computing (HPC) to high-throughput computing (HTC) and new paradigms like cloud, grid, and peer-to-peer networks.
- The progression of computing platforms and generations from mainframes to personal computers to modern distributed systems.
- Degrees of parallelism including bit-level, instruction-level, data-level, task-level, and job-level and how these have improved over time.
- Major applications that have driven distributed computing including science, engineering, banking, and
Abstract:-
This paper is based on the study of grid computing and cloud computing technology. These two technologies are related with geographically defined network standards. The main aspect of this paper is deep learning of latest technology and trends in the field of networking.
Keywords:-Technology,Cloud Computing,Grid Computing
This document provides a 3 paragraph summary of a seminar report on cloud computing submitted by Rahul Gupta to his professor Shraddha Khenka. The report acknowledges those who contributed to advancements in internet and computing technologies that enable cloud computing. It includes an introduction to cloud computing, comparisons to other technologies, economics of cloud computing, architectural layers, key features, deployment models, and issues. The summary covers the essential topics and information presented in the seminar report on cloud computing.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A Comparative Study: Taxonomy of High Performance Computing (HPC) IJECEIAES
The computer technologies have rapidly developed in both software and hardware field. The complexity of software is increasing as per the market demand because the manual systems are going to become automation as well as the cost of hardware is decreasing. High Performance Computing (HPC) is very demanding technology and an attractive area of computing due to huge data processing in many applications of computing. The paper focus upon different applications of HPC and the types of HPC such as Cluster Computing, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing. It also studies, different classifications and applications of above types of HPC. All these types of HPC are demanding area of computer science. This paper also done comparative study of grid, cloud and cluster computing based on benefits, drawbacks, key areas of research, characterstics, issues and challenges.
An Efficient Cloud Scheduling Algorithm for the Conservation of Energy throug...IJECEIAES
Method of broadcasting is the well known operation that is used for providing support to different computing protocols in cloud computing. Attaining energy efficiency is one of the prominent challenges, that is quite significant in the scheduling process that is used in cloud computing as, there are fixed limits that have to be met by the system. In this research paper, we are particularly focusing on the cloud server maintenance and scheduling process and to do so, we are using the interactive broadcasting energy efficient computing technique along with the cloud computing server. Additionally, the remote host machines used for cloud services are dissipating more power and with that they are consuming more and more energy. The effect of the power consumption is one of the main factors for determining the cost of the computing resources. With the idea of using the avoidance technology for assigning the data center resources that dynamically depend on the application demands and supports the cloud computing with the optimization of the servers in use.
A Virtualization Model for Cloud ComputingSouvik Pal
Cloud Computing is now a very emerging field in the IT industry as well as research field. The advancement of Cloud Computing came up due to fast-growing usage of internet among the people. Cloud Computing is basically on-demand network access to a collection of physical resources which can be provisioned according to the need of cloud user under the supervision of Cloud Service provider interaction. From business prospective, the viable achievements of Cloud Computing and recent developments in Grid computing have brought the platform that has introduced virtualization technology into the era of high performance computing. Virtualization technology is widely applied to modern data center for cloud computing. Virtualization is used computer resources to imitate other computer resources or whole computers. This paper provides a Virtualization model for cloud computing that may lead to faster access and better performance. This model may help to combine self-service capabilities and ready-to-use facilities for computing resources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
This document discusses the evolution of distributed computing from centralized mainframes to modern cloud, grid, and parallel computing systems. It covers key topics like:
- The shift from high-performance computing (HPC) to high-throughput computing (HTC) and new paradigms like cloud, grid, and peer-to-peer networks.
- The progression of computing platforms and generations from mainframes to personal computers to modern distributed systems.
- Degrees of parallelism including bit-level, instruction-level, data-level, task-level, and job-level and how these have improved over time.
- Major applications that have driven distributed computing including science, engineering, banking, and
Abstract:-
This paper is based on the study of grid computing and cloud computing technology. These two technologies are related with geographically defined network standards. The main aspect of this paper is deep learning of latest technology and trends in the field of networking.
Keywords:-Technology,Cloud Computing,Grid Computing
This document provides a 3 paragraph summary of a seminar report on cloud computing submitted by Rahul Gupta to his professor Shraddha Khenka. The report acknowledges those who contributed to advancements in internet and computing technologies that enable cloud computing. It includes an introduction to cloud computing, comparisons to other technologies, economics of cloud computing, architectural layers, key features, deployment models, and issues. The summary covers the essential topics and information presented in the seminar report on cloud computing.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A Comparative Study: Taxonomy of High Performance Computing (HPC) IJECEIAES
The computer technologies have rapidly developed in both software and hardware field. The complexity of software is increasing as per the market demand because the manual systems are going to become automation as well as the cost of hardware is decreasing. High Performance Computing (HPC) is very demanding technology and an attractive area of computing due to huge data processing in many applications of computing. The paper focus upon different applications of HPC and the types of HPC such as Cluster Computing, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing. It also studies, different classifications and applications of above types of HPC. All these types of HPC are demanding area of computer science. This paper also done comparative study of grid, cloud and cluster computing based on benefits, drawbacks, key areas of research, characterstics, issues and challenges.
An Efficient Cloud Scheduling Algorithm for the Conservation of Energy throug...IJECEIAES
Method of broadcasting is the well known operation that is used for providing support to different computing protocols in cloud computing. Attaining energy efficiency is one of the prominent challenges, that is quite significant in the scheduling process that is used in cloud computing as, there are fixed limits that have to be met by the system. In this research paper, we are particularly focusing on the cloud server maintenance and scheduling process and to do so, we are using the interactive broadcasting energy efficient computing technique along with the cloud computing server. Additionally, the remote host machines used for cloud services are dissipating more power and with that they are consuming more and more energy. The effect of the power consumption is one of the main factors for determining the cost of the computing resources. With the idea of using the avoidance technology for assigning the data center resources that dynamically depend on the application demands and supports the cloud computing with the optimization of the servers in use.
Grid computing is a model of distributed computing that uses geographically and administratively disparate resources to solve large problems. It involves sharing computing power, data, and other resources across organizational boundaries. Key aspects include applying resources from many computers to a single problem, combining resources from multiple administrative domains for tasks requiring large processing power or data, and using middleware to coordinate resources as a virtual system. The document then discusses definitions of grid computing from various organizations and the core functional requirements and characteristics needed for grid applications and users.
A Survey of Cloud Computing Approaches, Business Opportunities, Risk Analysis...Eswar Publications
In recent years, cloud computing become mainstream technology in IT industry offering new trends to software,
platform and infrastructure as a service over internet on a global scale by centralizing storage, memory and bandwidth. This new technology raises some new opportunities in producing different business operations which influence some new business benefits also some different risks issues are involved using cloud computing. This paper attempts to identify cloud computing approaches, highlights its business opportunities and help cloud computing user to analysis the cloud computing risks and to produce different solving approaches. This paper is targeted towards business and IT leaders considering a move to the cloud for some or all of their business applications.
www.iosrjournals.org 57 | Page Latest development of cloud computing technolo...Sushil kumar Choudhary
This document discusses the latest developments in cloud computing technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and describes its evolution over time from mainframes to current cloud models. The key characteristics of cloud computing are described, including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Challenges of cloud computing are also outlined. The document then examines the different deployment models including private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and community clouds. It also explores the various cloud service models of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Major cloud computing providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are mentioned
This document discusses different types of computing models including cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing, distributed computing, and cluster computing. It provides details on each model, including definitions, key characteristics, and examples. The document also evaluates cloud computing in terms of business drivers for adoption such as business growth, efficiency, customer experience, and assurance. It explains the NIST cloud computing model including deployment models (private, public, hybrid, community clouds) and service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). Finally, it discusses differences between cloud computing, grid computing and cluster computing and provides a note on characteristics and properties of cloud computing.
This document discusses security issues related to data location in cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing allows on-demand access to computing resources over the internet, but users often do not know where their data is physically stored or which country's laws govern the data. The research aims to develop a model for controlling data resources stored in cloud servers and implementing data manipulation techniques to protect data from unauthorized access across different country servers. The proposed action research methodology involves investigating how cloud vendors control customer data on cloud servers located in various jurisdictions.
This document discusses the core concepts of cloud computing. It begins by explaining how cloud computing evolved from earlier technologies like mainframe computing, client-server systems, virtualization, distributed computing, and internet technologies. It then defines the key aspects of cloud computing models, including service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (private, public, hybrid cloud). The document also outlines some of the core desired features of cloud computing like self-service, elasticity, metering and billing, and customization. Finally, it discusses some challenges and risks of cloud computing including security, privacy, trust issues as well as dependency on the cloud infrastructure.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
This document compares and contrasts cloud computing and grid computing. Grid computing refers to cooperation between multiple computers and servers to boost computational power, with a focus on high-capacity CPU tasks. Cloud computing delivers on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage and applications via the internet. Key differences include grid computing having a lower level of abstraction and scalability compared to cloud computing. Cloud computing also has stronger fault tolerance, is more widely accessible via the internet, and offers real-time services through its utility-based pricing model.
ABSTRACT
In today’s world, the swift increase of utilizing mobile services and simultaneously discovering of the cloud computing services, made the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) selected as a wide spread technology among mobile users. Thus, the MCC incorporates the cloud computing with mobile services for achieving facilities in daily using mobile. The capability of mobile devices is limited of computation context, memory capacity, storage ability, and energy. Thus, relying on cloud computing can handle these troubles in the mobile surroundings. Cloud Computing gives computing easiness and capacity such provides availability of services from anyplace through the Internet without putting resources into new foundation, preparing, or application authorizing. Additionally, Cloud Computing is an approach to expand the limitations or increasing the abilities dynamically. The primary favourable position of Cloud Computing is that clients just use what they require and pay for what they truly utilize. Mobile cloud computing is a form for various services, where a mobile gadget is able to utilize the cloud for data saving, seeking, information mining, and multimedia preparing. Cloud computing innovation is also causes many new complications in side of safety and gets to direct when users store significant information with cloud servers. As the clients never again have physical ownership of the outsourced information, makes the information trustworthiness, security, and authenticity insurance in Cloud Computing is extremely difficult and conceivably troublesome undertaking. In MCC environments, it is hard to find a paper embracing most of the concepts and issues such as: architecture, computational offloading, challenges, security issues, authentications and so on. In this paper we discuss these concepts with presenting a review of the most recent papers in the domain of MCC.
This document summarizes a research paper on dynamic consolidation of virtual machines in cloud data centers to manage overloaded hosts while maintaining quality of service constraints. It proposes using a Markov chain model and control algorithm to optimally detect host overloads by maximizing the average time between VM migrations, while meeting a specified QoS goal. The algorithm handles unknown workloads using a multisize sliding window approach. Evaluation shows the algorithm efficiently solves the problem of host overload detection as part of dynamic VM consolidation in cloud computing systems.
Cloud computing is Internet based development and use of computer technology. It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them. Cloud computing is a hot topic all over the world nowadays, through which customers can access information and computer power via a web browser. As the adoption and deployment of cloud computing increase, it is critical to evaluate the performance of cloud environments. Currently, modeling and simulation technology has become a useful and powerful tool in cloud computing research community to deal with these issues. Cloud simulators are required for cloud system testing to decrease the complexity and separate quality concerns. Cloud computing means saving and accessing the data over the internet instead of local storage. In this paper, we have provided a short review on the types, models and architecture of the cloud environment.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing technology and infrastructure. It discusses key concepts like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the various deployment models (private, public, hybrid, and community clouds), and essential characteristics of cloud computing like on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The document also outlines the architecture of cloud systems and how engineering principles are applied to cloud computing. It aims to give readers an understanding of IaaS and the technical aspects that underpin cloud infrastructure.
This document discusses cloud computing and the migration from traditional systems to cloud systems. It defines cloud computing and describes the main service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and deployment types (private, public, hybrid, community). The key benefits of cloud computing mentioned are flexibility, scalability, reduced costs, and maintenance of the cloud system being handled by the cloud provider rather than by the user's organization. Migrating systems to the cloud can help organizations meet increasing demands on their systems like load, availability and security in a more cost effective way compared to traditional approaches.
A brief review: security issues in cloud computing and their solutionsTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Cloud computing is an Internet-based, emerging technology, tends to be prevailing in our environment especially in the field of computer sciences and information technologies which require network computing on large scale. Cloud Computing is a shared pool of services which is gaining popularity due to its cost, effectiveness, avilability and great production. Along with its numerous benefits, cloud computing brings much more challenging situation regarding data privacy, data protection, authenticated access, Intellectual property rights etc. Due to these issues, adoption of cloud computing is becoming difficult in today’s world. In this review paper, various security issues regarding data privacy and reliability, key factors which are affecting cloud computing, have been addressed and also suggestions on particular areas have been discussed.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
A proposal for implementing cloud computing in newspaper companyKingsley Mensah
This proposal recommends implementing cloud computing for a newspaper company's management information system using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud model. It analyzes cloud computing and virtualization concepts. The strategy is to move backup storage to the cloud, virtualize staff/management PCs for improved security, and implement the Azure cloud to cut costs by 50% compared to current on-premise infrastructure expenses. Virtualizing access through the cloud will strengthen security while taking advantage of Azure's competitive pricing and 30-day free trial.
Improving Cloud Performance through Performance Based Load Balancing ApproachIRJET Journal
The document proposes a performance-based load balancing approach to improve cloud computing performance through load balancing and fault tolerance. It considers success ratio and past load data when distributing tasks among nodes. A fault handler is used to detect and recover from faults reactively. When a fault occurs, the handler updates node records, restarts servers, or transfers pending tasks. Task outcomes are evaluated based on status and deadlines. Nodes with successful outcomes have their success ratios incremented, while unsuccessful nodes have ratios decremented or fault handling triggered. The approach aims to map tasks to nodes with higher success ratios and lower current loads to improve quality of service. Cloudsim simulations show how success ratios for sample nodes change with this approach over multiple task assignments.
Ijarcce9 b a anjan a comparative analysis grid cluster and cloud computingHarsh Parashar
1) The document compares and contrasts three computing technologies: cluster computing, grid computing, and cloud computing.
2) Cluster computing involves connecting multiple nodes together to function as a single entity for improved performance and fault tolerance. Grid computing shares resources from multiple geographically dispersed locations.
3) Cloud computing provides on-demand access to dynamically scalable virtual resources as a utility over the Internet. It has advantages like cost savings, flexibility, and reliability.
Latest development of cloud computing technology, characteristics, challenge,...sushil Choudhary
Cloud computing is a network-based environment that focuses on sharing computations, Cloud computing networks access to a shared pool of configurable networks, servers, storage, service, applications & other important Computing resources. In modern era of Information Technology, the accesses to all information about the important activities of the related fields. In this paper discuss the advantages, disadvantages, characteristics, challenge, deployment model, cloud service model, cloud service provider & various applications areas of cloud computing such as small & large scale (manufacturing, automation, television, broadcast, constructions industries), Geographical Information system (GIS), Military intelligence fusion (MIS), business management, banking, Education, healthcare, Agriculture sector, E-Governance, project planning, cloud computing in family etc. Keywords: Cloud computing, community model, hybrid model, Public model, private model
HYBRID OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL NETWORK FLOWS SCHEDULING IN CLOUD DATA CENTRESijcsit
This document summarizes a research paper on scheduling flows in hybrid optical and electrical networks for cloud data centers. The paper proposes a strategy for selecting which flows are suitable to switch from the electrical packet network to the optical circuit network. It presents techniques for detecting bottlenecks in the packet network and selecting flows to offload. Simulation results showed improved network performance from this flow selection approach, including higher average throughput, lower configuration delay, and more stable offloaded flows.
This document provides an overview of distributed computing paradigms such as cloud computing, jungle computing, and fog computing. It defines distributed computing as utilizing multiple autonomous computers located across different areas to solve large problems. Cloud computing is described as internet-based computing using shared online resources and data storage. Jungle computing combines distributed systems for high performance, while fog computing extends cloud computing to network edges for low latency applications. The document discusses characteristics, architectures, advantages and disadvantages of these paradigms.
This document provides a comprehensive study of cloud computing. It discusses cloud computing models including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). It explores the benefits of cloud computing such as scalability, flexibility, and reduced costs. However, it also notes avoidance issues like security, privacy, internet dependency, and availability. The document concludes by stating that vertical scalability presents a technical challenge in cloud environments.
Grid computing is a model of distributed computing that uses geographically and administratively disparate resources to solve large problems. It involves sharing computing power, data, and other resources across organizational boundaries. Key aspects include applying resources from many computers to a single problem, combining resources from multiple administrative domains for tasks requiring large processing power or data, and using middleware to coordinate resources as a virtual system. The document then discusses definitions of grid computing from various organizations and the core functional requirements and characteristics needed for grid applications and users.
A Survey of Cloud Computing Approaches, Business Opportunities, Risk Analysis...Eswar Publications
In recent years, cloud computing become mainstream technology in IT industry offering new trends to software,
platform and infrastructure as a service over internet on a global scale by centralizing storage, memory and bandwidth. This new technology raises some new opportunities in producing different business operations which influence some new business benefits also some different risks issues are involved using cloud computing. This paper attempts to identify cloud computing approaches, highlights its business opportunities and help cloud computing user to analysis the cloud computing risks and to produce different solving approaches. This paper is targeted towards business and IT leaders considering a move to the cloud for some or all of their business applications.
www.iosrjournals.org 57 | Page Latest development of cloud computing technolo...Sushil kumar Choudhary
This document discusses the latest developments in cloud computing technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and describes its evolution over time from mainframes to current cloud models. The key characteristics of cloud computing are described, including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Challenges of cloud computing are also outlined. The document then examines the different deployment models including private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and community clouds. It also explores the various cloud service models of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Major cloud computing providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are mentioned
This document discusses different types of computing models including cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing, distributed computing, and cluster computing. It provides details on each model, including definitions, key characteristics, and examples. The document also evaluates cloud computing in terms of business drivers for adoption such as business growth, efficiency, customer experience, and assurance. It explains the NIST cloud computing model including deployment models (private, public, hybrid, community clouds) and service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). Finally, it discusses differences between cloud computing, grid computing and cluster computing and provides a note on characteristics and properties of cloud computing.
This document discusses security issues related to data location in cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing allows on-demand access to computing resources over the internet, but users often do not know where their data is physically stored or which country's laws govern the data. The research aims to develop a model for controlling data resources stored in cloud servers and implementing data manipulation techniques to protect data from unauthorized access across different country servers. The proposed action research methodology involves investigating how cloud vendors control customer data on cloud servers located in various jurisdictions.
This document discusses the core concepts of cloud computing. It begins by explaining how cloud computing evolved from earlier technologies like mainframe computing, client-server systems, virtualization, distributed computing, and internet technologies. It then defines the key aspects of cloud computing models, including service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (private, public, hybrid cloud). The document also outlines some of the core desired features of cloud computing like self-service, elasticity, metering and billing, and customization. Finally, it discusses some challenges and risks of cloud computing including security, privacy, trust issues as well as dependency on the cloud infrastructure.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
This document compares and contrasts cloud computing and grid computing. Grid computing refers to cooperation between multiple computers and servers to boost computational power, with a focus on high-capacity CPU tasks. Cloud computing delivers on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage and applications via the internet. Key differences include grid computing having a lower level of abstraction and scalability compared to cloud computing. Cloud computing also has stronger fault tolerance, is more widely accessible via the internet, and offers real-time services through its utility-based pricing model.
ABSTRACT
In today’s world, the swift increase of utilizing mobile services and simultaneously discovering of the cloud computing services, made the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) selected as a wide spread technology among mobile users. Thus, the MCC incorporates the cloud computing with mobile services for achieving facilities in daily using mobile. The capability of mobile devices is limited of computation context, memory capacity, storage ability, and energy. Thus, relying on cloud computing can handle these troubles in the mobile surroundings. Cloud Computing gives computing easiness and capacity such provides availability of services from anyplace through the Internet without putting resources into new foundation, preparing, or application authorizing. Additionally, Cloud Computing is an approach to expand the limitations or increasing the abilities dynamically. The primary favourable position of Cloud Computing is that clients just use what they require and pay for what they truly utilize. Mobile cloud computing is a form for various services, where a mobile gadget is able to utilize the cloud for data saving, seeking, information mining, and multimedia preparing. Cloud computing innovation is also causes many new complications in side of safety and gets to direct when users store significant information with cloud servers. As the clients never again have physical ownership of the outsourced information, makes the information trustworthiness, security, and authenticity insurance in Cloud Computing is extremely difficult and conceivably troublesome undertaking. In MCC environments, it is hard to find a paper embracing most of the concepts and issues such as: architecture, computational offloading, challenges, security issues, authentications and so on. In this paper we discuss these concepts with presenting a review of the most recent papers in the domain of MCC.
This document summarizes a research paper on dynamic consolidation of virtual machines in cloud data centers to manage overloaded hosts while maintaining quality of service constraints. It proposes using a Markov chain model and control algorithm to optimally detect host overloads by maximizing the average time between VM migrations, while meeting a specified QoS goal. The algorithm handles unknown workloads using a multisize sliding window approach. Evaluation shows the algorithm efficiently solves the problem of host overload detection as part of dynamic VM consolidation in cloud computing systems.
Cloud computing is Internet based development and use of computer technology. It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them. Cloud computing is a hot topic all over the world nowadays, through which customers can access information and computer power via a web browser. As the adoption and deployment of cloud computing increase, it is critical to evaluate the performance of cloud environments. Currently, modeling and simulation technology has become a useful and powerful tool in cloud computing research community to deal with these issues. Cloud simulators are required for cloud system testing to decrease the complexity and separate quality concerns. Cloud computing means saving and accessing the data over the internet instead of local storage. In this paper, we have provided a short review on the types, models and architecture of the cloud environment.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing technology and infrastructure. It discusses key concepts like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the various deployment models (private, public, hybrid, and community clouds), and essential characteristics of cloud computing like on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The document also outlines the architecture of cloud systems and how engineering principles are applied to cloud computing. It aims to give readers an understanding of IaaS and the technical aspects that underpin cloud infrastructure.
This document discusses cloud computing and the migration from traditional systems to cloud systems. It defines cloud computing and describes the main service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and deployment types (private, public, hybrid, community). The key benefits of cloud computing mentioned are flexibility, scalability, reduced costs, and maintenance of the cloud system being handled by the cloud provider rather than by the user's organization. Migrating systems to the cloud can help organizations meet increasing demands on their systems like load, availability and security in a more cost effective way compared to traditional approaches.
A brief review: security issues in cloud computing and their solutionsTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Cloud computing is an Internet-based, emerging technology, tends to be prevailing in our environment especially in the field of computer sciences and information technologies which require network computing on large scale. Cloud Computing is a shared pool of services which is gaining popularity due to its cost, effectiveness, avilability and great production. Along with its numerous benefits, cloud computing brings much more challenging situation regarding data privacy, data protection, authenticated access, Intellectual property rights etc. Due to these issues, adoption of cloud computing is becoming difficult in today’s world. In this review paper, various security issues regarding data privacy and reliability, key factors which are affecting cloud computing, have been addressed and also suggestions on particular areas have been discussed.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
A proposal for implementing cloud computing in newspaper companyKingsley Mensah
This proposal recommends implementing cloud computing for a newspaper company's management information system using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud model. It analyzes cloud computing and virtualization concepts. The strategy is to move backup storage to the cloud, virtualize staff/management PCs for improved security, and implement the Azure cloud to cut costs by 50% compared to current on-premise infrastructure expenses. Virtualizing access through the cloud will strengthen security while taking advantage of Azure's competitive pricing and 30-day free trial.
Improving Cloud Performance through Performance Based Load Balancing ApproachIRJET Journal
The document proposes a performance-based load balancing approach to improve cloud computing performance through load balancing and fault tolerance. It considers success ratio and past load data when distributing tasks among nodes. A fault handler is used to detect and recover from faults reactively. When a fault occurs, the handler updates node records, restarts servers, or transfers pending tasks. Task outcomes are evaluated based on status and deadlines. Nodes with successful outcomes have their success ratios incremented, while unsuccessful nodes have ratios decremented or fault handling triggered. The approach aims to map tasks to nodes with higher success ratios and lower current loads to improve quality of service. Cloudsim simulations show how success ratios for sample nodes change with this approach over multiple task assignments.
Ijarcce9 b a anjan a comparative analysis grid cluster and cloud computingHarsh Parashar
1) The document compares and contrasts three computing technologies: cluster computing, grid computing, and cloud computing.
2) Cluster computing involves connecting multiple nodes together to function as a single entity for improved performance and fault tolerance. Grid computing shares resources from multiple geographically dispersed locations.
3) Cloud computing provides on-demand access to dynamically scalable virtual resources as a utility over the Internet. It has advantages like cost savings, flexibility, and reliability.
Latest development of cloud computing technology, characteristics, challenge,...sushil Choudhary
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Efficient architectural framework of cloud computing
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Efficient Architectural Framework for Cloud Computing
Souvik Pal*, Prasant Kumar Pattnaik*
*Department of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received April 12th
, 2012
Revised May 1th
, 2012
Accepted June 3th
, 2012
Cloud computing is that enables adaptive, favorable and on-demand network
access to a collective pool of adjustable and configurable computing physical
resources which networks, servers, bandwidth, storage that can be swiftly
provisioned and released with negligible supervision endeavor or service
provider interaction. From business prospective, the viable achievements of
Cloud Computing and recent developments in Grid computing have brought
the platform that has introduced virtualization technology into the era of high
performance computing. However, clouds are Internet-based concept and try
to disguise complexity overhead for end users. Cloud service providers
(CSPs) use many structural designs combined with self-service capabilities
and ready-to-use facilities for computing resources, which are enabled
through network infrastructure especially the internet which is an important
consideration. This paper provides an efficient architectural Framework for
cloud computing that may lead to better performance and faster access.
Keyword:
Cloud Computing
Grid
Virtualization
Hypervisor
Copyright @ 2012 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
First Author,
Department of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, India
Email: souvikpal22@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
Popularly, cloud computing or Internet computing is used for enabling convenient, on-demand
network access to a networks, servers, mass storage and application specific services with minimal effort to
both service provider and end user [2]. For simplicity, A Cloud itself an infrastructure or framework that
comprises a pool of physical computing resources i.e. a set of hardware, processors, memory, storage,
networks and bandwidth, which can be organized on Demand into services that can grow or shrink in real-
time scenario [1]. In surge of demand of internet and its immense usage all over the globe, Computing has
moved from the traditional computing to distributed high performance computing say distributing computing,
subsequently Grid Computing and then Computing through clouds. The main reason of inventing Cloud
Computing is to reducing cost, reducing time and overhead maintenance of data storage and fast access all
over the world.
The advancement of Cloud Computing came up due to fast-growing usage of internet among the
people. The Cloud Computing is not a totally new technology; it is basically a journey through distributed,
cluster and grid computing. In the case of cluster computing [12], many clusters were formed. A cluster is an
aggregation of homogeneous computers interlinked with each other by high-speed networks [14] and
allocated in a centralized way. Sometimes, it is not feasible for a single computer to execute massive
compute and data intensive tasks. When a huge computational task is needed to execute, the individual
computers may form a cluster to share computational workload and they function as a single virtual machine.
The advantage is that failure of a node doesn’t put any impact over the system because some another standby
node will do the needful task. But the drastic changes in the no. of service-oriented requests, lack of
sufficient additional resources, centralized resource handling are the issues of cluster computing. We need to
discuss the updating issues in Grid Computing [15]. Grid computing is the combination of computers from
various administrative domains to meet a common target and may disappear after the completion of the task.
It is analogous to power grid [16]. In an electrical grid scenario, there are three phases namely, Generation,
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Transmission and Distribution. But the users don’t need to know either the location of power plant or the
process by which users getting the power. Likewise, in grid computing, the end users do not know about the
underlying processes and resources. A massive computing task is assigned to a grid and the grid shares out
the task into sub tasks, which are independently consigned to a range of nodes. It’s all done by Job-
scheduling Process [17]. Like cluster computing, Failure of a node doesn’t affect the whole process. But it’s a
different task to organize and maintain heterogeneous systems. The grid resources incur unnecessary
overheads in terms of stability. In compared to cluster and grid computing, clouds are highly scalable,
capable of both centralized & distributed resource handling, loosely coupled and provide on-demand
computation & application service. Cloud computing is basically known as computing over internet. Cloud
computing is an enhancement of distributed and parallel computing, Cluster Computing and Grid computing.
In this advanced era, not only user able to use a particular web based application but also that may be in
active participation in its computational procedure by either adopting ,demanding or pay per use basis
[9][10].
1.2 Challenges of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is presenting itself as a good servant to the end user, but it has some challenges
and issues. Security issues are the most vital issues of the cloud computing. Its very risk to put all the data,
information of an organization to a cloud provider and running an application at another’s place is also at
stake. Because data loss, phishing the data, threat is the common problem. Privacy and reliability are to be
maintained during transportation and storage of the data. Cloud is made for sharing the workload into the
common infrastructure and users have to rely on the cloud provider about their identity information,
operation histories and perceptive data. Cloud is not responsible for unauthorized usage and its retrieval, lack
of user administration and third party access. In piracy aspect, there is a pool of resources and millions of
software, applications and services are running publicly. So it’s very easy to pirate all those things from
floating data and use it in an unauthorized way without any identification & authentication. Over-utilization
of capacity makes a customer irritated when CSP have promised to deliver a service but could not able to
meet the needs of the customer. Internet latency is also a hindrance of clod computing, which hampers the
CSPs to deliver the services on time. In the view of auditing, in a particular service or application, cloud
service provider (CSP) and the end user has the authoritative control over the data. CSP has the authority to
replicate, shift and alter the data. That’s why the clients need to keep a watch over all those activities so that
CSP can’t do those behaviors beyond its domain. But this is not practical to audit all the data and also
complicated to decide which data need to be audit [18]. Moreover multi-tenancy is also a considerable issue
if the numbers of applications, which are running on a particular node, are going to increase, then the
bandwidth allocated to each application decreases that mean number of applications and allocated bandwidth
is inversely proportional. It reduces the performance of the system.
The paper organized as follows: In the section 2, we have discussed the virtualization Vs traditional
approach. Section 3 describes the deployment models. Section 4 has given the idea of conventional cloud
service models. And in the section 5, we have given a proposed architectural framework & its constraints.
Lastly, section 6 concludes the work.
2. VIRTUALIZATION VERSUS TRADITIONAL APPROACH
Virtualization is used computer resources to imitate other computer resources or whole computers.
A virtualization environment that enables the configuration of systems (i.e. compute power, bandwidth and
storage) as well as helps the creation of individual virtual machine, has become the essential technology of
cloud computing environments. Virtualization provides a platform for optimizing complex IT resources in a
scalable manner (efficiently growing), which is ideal for delivering services. At a fundamental level,
virtualization technology enables the abstraction or decoupling of the application payload from the
underlying physical resource [3] that means Physical resources can be changed or transformed into virtual or
logical resources on-demand which is called Provisioning.
In traditional approach, there are mixed hardware environment, multiple management tools,
frequent application patching and updating, complex workloads and multiple software architecture. But
comparatively in cloud data center far better approach like homogeneous environment, standardize
management tools, minimal application patching and updating, simple workloads and single standard
software architecture [5].
3. DEPLOYMENT MODELS
Depending on the requirement of services and the applications, cloud models are categorized into
four types:
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Public Cloud: In this cloud model, the computer resources and same infrastructure used by
multiple users. Usable standardized workload for applications, high scalability, testing and
developing applications, security strategy are the basic criterion of public cloud. Email-system
is a good example of public cloud. For example, when end-users use mail services say Yahoo or
Gmail account, they need to have only a computer and internet connection. User need not to
know about the underlying process. They are just using the cloud. All the maintaining, testing
and developing task are done by Yahoo or Google itself.
Private Cloud: In this cloud model, the computer resources and infrastructure are handled by an
organization and highly virtualized data-center is located inside the client’s firewall. It has
specific workloads and provides well-managed environment, optimized usage of computing
resources, security and compliance. Quality of Service (QoS) is managed and controlled by the
organization itself. For example, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private cloud, which
offers clients isolated AWS (Amazon Work Space) and protection by Virtual Private Network
(VPN) connections.
Hybrid Cloud: Combination of private cloud and public cloud makes hybrid cloud. The
vendors use the physical resources from public cloud on-demand basis and return it when it is
of no use [8]. Let us consider a scenario: Suppose a company want to use a SaaS Application,
which would meet the considerations of the company, i.e. Security and standardize usage
throughout the company. The SaaS provider creates a private cloud for the particular company
inside their firewall so that the entire company can use the cloud as a standard. Now they
provide the company with a Virtual Private Network (VPN) for getting more security [4].
Hence, we can see that. Combining the advantages of private and public cloud, we can create a
hybrid cloud.
Community cloud: In case of joint venture application, a same cloud infrastructure needs to be
constructed and shared by several organizations jointly, so that they can use the same
framework as well as policies, services, requirements, applications, and concerns [7]. Hybrid
cloud is highly scalable and reduces cost complexity. The third-party vendor or any one of the
vendors within the community may host and maintain the community cloud infrastructure.
4. CLOUD SERVICE
End-users or clients use the cloud services according to their needs. While discussing the cloud
service, we are first going to confer about conventional cloud service. In traditional cloud concept, as shown
as figure [1], Cloud Providers provides three types of Services which include Software as a Service (SaaS)
which is the top most layer of the cloud stack. End users can use the services or software provided by SaaS
without purchasing and maintaining overhead, Platform as a Service (PaaS) where end users can run &
deploy their applications which are able to run concurrently on the same cloud platform and Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS) that provides mainly infrastructure-based services. It also provides pool of physical
resources (i.e. Servers, networks, bandwidth, storage, and data center space), virtualization technology and
virtual machines (VMs). IaaS maintains and manages those entire things alone and it’s a really huge task for
IaaS. There is no separate resource pool and also management layer which separately controls the accesses of
VMs.
Figure 1. Traditional Cloud Service Architecture
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5. PROPOSED MODEL
We proposed a enhanced service model shown in figure [2] which separates IaaS into three sub-
modules namely IaaS itself, Hypervisor Monitoring Environment (HME), Resources as a Service (RaaS). (1)
Software as a Service: SaaS delivers the end-user applications. User-clients just use this service without the
headache of running, maintaining, updating the software. It will help to get rid of cost complexity because
end users need not to worry about all those things. Salesforce.com is example of SaaS. (2) Platform as a
Service: PaaS provides independent platform which has deployment capabilities and multi-tenancy (capable
of running many application on single platform concurrently) architecture. The client has the freedom to
create his own applications, which run on the provider’s infrastructure. PaaS providers offer a predefined
arrangement of OS and application servers [6]. Google Apps Engine is a common example of PaaS. (3)
Infrastructure as a Service: IaaS acts as a service-provider of infrastructure on which RaaS may expand
itself on-demand basis. It delivers operating systems and virtualization technology to manage the resources. It
monitors how the physical resources are distributed for virtualization and how VMs should be placed so that
the cloud service providers (CSP) and end users can retrieve the data & compute resources from the resource
pool via Hypervisor Monitoring Environment (HME) in a efficient way. It’s smarter to rent than to buy IaaS
service because of price, aggregation of resources, speed to deployment, security. Amazon EC2, Rackspace
are the common example of IaaS.
Figure 2. Enhanced Cloud Service
Meanwhile, (4) Hypervisor Monitoring Environment: HME is like a middleware, which persists in
between IaaS and physical resources. It consists of hypervisor and monitoring system. Hypervisor is a
mainframe operating system, which allows other operating systems to run on the same system concurrently.
And its monitoring system monitors the accesses of Virtual Machines. Let us consider a service scenario so
that we can understand the usability of HME. Suppose an organization is in need of Infrastructure-based
service. While requesting for data and resources, hypervisor is accessible in the booting time of the system to
regulate the allocation of computer resources and hardware resources from the bottom-most layer i.e. RaaS
across multiple VMs, which are lying in the IaaS layer. Hypervisors may be subcategorized in three types
[4]:
Native Hypervisor: This type of hypervisor resides directly on the hardware platform for getting
better performance.
Embedded Hypervisor: Those are integrated with processors on a separate chip for getting
performance development.
Host Hypervisor: those act as a separate software layer above both hardware & OS to gain
performance improvement.
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Furthermore, (5) Resources as a Service (RaaS): At the lowest level of the cloud stack, there would be a
pool of physical Resources i.e. Servers, networks, bandwidth, storage, and data center space, which may be
shared by multiple cloud providers. In this era of rapid growth of resources virtualization, from this pool of
physical resources multiple vendors or the service providers may use the RaaS service on-demand basis.
Figure 3. Cloud Hybrid Framework
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5.1. Cloud Architecture
This section, deals with hybrid architecture issues of the cloud. Each cloud-client or end user or
employee of an organization is accessing operating system, software application, network, bandwidth,
storage via internet as shown in the figure [3]. The entire hybrid framework may be subdivided into two
important layers [5] as Cloud Platform Architecture (CPA) and Cloud Application Architecture (CAA). In
between CPA & CAA layer, there is a connecting layer which is cloud provider, associated with Cloud APIs
and which is available in the Internet-oriented Business-place of IT industry. The significance of two layers
is discussed below. (a) Cloud Platform Architecture: Cloud Platform Architecture is the base architecture
of cloud, which includes the cloud-service oriented architecture. In CPA Reference model, we classified CPA
model into following sub layers.
Distributed Resources of physical hosts: Resources of physical hosts are distributed over the lowest
level of the framework. These resources are logically represented as a multiple numbers of virtual
machines (VMs) through resource-virtualization.
Cloud Hypervisor: Cloud hypervisor is designed like a mainframe Operating System that allows
other operating systems to run on the same machine concurrently. It monitors the accesses of guest
Operating systems. Hypervisor monitoring Environment (HME) administrates the system by letting
the guest node entering in the system and handling the memory management of the VMs. Ex.:
VMware, Hyper-V, KMV, Xen.
Resources Virtualization: The concept of virtualization is the most basic important Sub-block of the
cloud framework. Virtualization is the process by which we can hide the underlying infrastructure
by inserting a logical layer. The three basic resources i.e. computation, network and storage are
virtualized and represented logically in this layer.
Virtual Machines (VMs): multiple numbers of virtual machines are there to support multiple
operating system and application instances. These VMs provides greater scalability, flexibility,
better performance. Virtualization facilitate the providing and management of the dynamic data
center’s infrastructure. Virtualization provides the abstraction of the four computing resources
(storage, processing power, memory, and network or I/O). Instead of dealing with a single
computer, it aggregates resources from multiple computers and it presents a uniform view to the
users and applications.
Distributed Service Assurance Platform: This platform helps to create FCAPS-Oriented (Fault,
Configuration, Account, Performance, Security) virtual servers [1] that allow hosting the operating
systems and executing the applications. It provides dynamic service, Accounting, Performance
optimization, enabling security, updating configuration.
Software-oriented Service: This module provides ready-to-use software service. The end users have
not to take any overhead for purchasing and maintaining the software. They just use the software
services through this module.
Meanwhile, (b) Cloud Application Architecture: Cloud Application Architecture is basically
Service-Oriented-architecture (SOA), which helps user-clients to get their on-demand service. This reference
model will help the service providers and end-users maintaining controlled access and dynamism in real-time
applications. This architecture includes three sub-layers namely virtual appliances, agent-based layer and
business service provider. Each of this sub layer as follows:
Virtual Appliances: Virtual Appliances run with the APIs of various Customer Service Providers
(CSPs) or Platforms. It is an instance of Virtual Environment Extension (VEE). Cloud Applications
are deployed as virtual appliances to make management better. Virtual Appliance configuration
should be in such a way that the application and services are growing but management overheads
would not be growing proportionally.
Agent-based Layer: In this layer, cloud agents are like brokers between virtual appliances layer and
Business Service and Provider (BSP) layer. The main aim of the cloud agents is the optimal
arrangement of VEEs into CSPs configured and managed by the service manager. They have the
authority to move throughout the VEEs and also remote sites until arrangement is satisfied.
Business Service Provider (BSP): BSP layer consists of Business Service Management (BSM),
Service Level Agreement (SLA), Service orchestration, Process Management. BSP layer provides
common infrastructure elements for service level management, metered usage, policy management,
license management, and disaster recovery [3]. SLA is concerned about business-oriented
agreement (SLA) and laws. Process management schedules and manage the processes.
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BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHORS
Souvik Pal
M.Tech Research Scholar, KIIT University, India.
Research Area : Cloud Computing and Virtualization.
Email id: souvikpal22@gmail.com
Dr. Prasant Kumar Pattnaik
Associate Professor, KIIT University, India
Senior member of IACSIT.
Research Area : MANET, Wireless Sensor Network, Cloud Computing.
Email id: patnaikprasant@gmail.com