Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation

Liaquat Kiani, Saad

Abstract

—The ability to seamlessly bridge clouds across organisational and administrative boundaries will play a vital role in establishing the utility of cloud computing for large-scale collaborative processes. Managing human and environmental contexts across geographical, network and administrative boundaries is a process that can benefit from a federation of cloud platforms. In the absence of a mature standard that defines access, control, management and coordination mechanisms between clouds in a federation, we explore these issues through a use-case of managing the dissemination and consumption of contextual information. The use-case is driven by the deployment of a broker-based context provisioning system, for homogenous cloud deployments that reside in different administrative domains. The discussion is driven by the aim to highlight key issues and challenges for enabling cloud federation for large-scale
context provisioning, which forms the main contribution of this article.

Citation

Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, July). Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation. Paper presented at The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), Palermo, Italy

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS)
• Conference Location: Palermo, Italy
• Start Date: Jul 4, 2012
• End Date: Jul 6, 2012
• Publication Date: Jul 4, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 241-248
• Keywords: context, cloud computing, computer architecture, scalability, mobile communication, subscriptions, servers, federated brokers, cloud federation, context management
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/945536
• Publisher URL: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CISIS.2012.161
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS)