A Coordination-Based Brokerage Architecture for Multi-cloud Resource Markets

Aldawood, Sarah; Fowley, Frank; Pahl, Claus; Taibi, Davide; Liu, Xiaodong

Abstract

With an increasing number of service providers in the cloud market, the competition between these is also increasing. Each provider attempts to attract customers by providing a high quality service with lowest possible cost and at the same time trying to make profit. Often, cloud resources are advertised and brokered in a spot market style, i.e., traded for immediate delivery. This paper proposes an architecture for a brokerage model specifically for multi-cloud resource spot markets that integrates the resource brokerage function across several cloud providers. We use a tuple space architecture to facilitate coordination. This architecture supports specifically multiple cloud providers selling unused resources in the spot market. To support the matching process by finding the best match between customer requirements and providers, offers are matched with regard the lowest possible cost available for the customer in the market at the time of the request. The key role of this architecture is to provide the coordination techniques built on a tuple space, adapted to the cloud spot market.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW)
• Start Date: Aug 22, 2016
• End Date: Aug 24, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 18, 2016
• Publication Date: Oct 18, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 15, 2017
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW)
• ISBN: 9781509039463
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/w-ficloud.2016.19
• Keywords: Cloud Brokerage Architecture, Cloud Resources Market, Tuple Space, Resource Brokerage, Spot Market
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/451372
• Contract Date: Nov 15, 2017