A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures

Fowley, Frank; Pahl, Claus; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Fang, Daren; Liu, Xiaodong

Abstract

Cloud service brokerage and related management and marketplace concepts have been identified as key concerns for future cloud technology development and research. Cloud service management is an important building block of cloud architectures that can be extended to act as a broker service layer between consumers and providers, and even to form marketplace services. We present a 3-pronged classification and comparison framework for broker platforms and applications. A range of specific broker development concerns like architecture, programming and quality are investigated. Based on this framework, selected management, brokerage and marketplace solutions will be compared, not only to demonstrate the utility of the framework, but also to identify challenges and wider research objectives based on an identification of cloud broker architecture concerns and technical requirements for service brokerage solutions. Cloud architecture concerns such as commoditisation and federation of integrated, vertical cloud stacks emerge.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Mar 2, 2016
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 14, 2017
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
• Print ISSN: 2168-7161
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 358-371
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2016.2537333
• Keywords: Service Management, Cloud Broker, Service Brokerage, Architecture Patterns, Cloud Broker Classification
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/451178
• Contract Date: Nov 14, 2017