CSR: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Brokerage Services for the Next Generation Cloud

CSR：EAGER：协作研究：下一代云的经纪服务

• 批准号: 1250327
• 负责人: Dan Lin
• 金额: $ 14.03万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; EAGER; Collaborative; Research; Brokerage

Future cloud services are expected to increasingly involve and synthesize capabilities from multiple clouds. Applications from different organizations may establish collaborative relationships and share information dynamically in cloud computing. In this increasingly complex scenario, both consumers and service providers will face new challenges. For example, consumers will need to be able to identify the best service providers from a potentially huge pool, which could be computationally demanding. Service providers will need to be able to ensure the security and privacy of data shared among loosely connected subcontractors.This project proposes a novel brokerage-based architecture to promote cost-effective cloud provisioning. Specifically, the PIs will devise efficient indexing structures to facilitate the management of massive information generated by a large number of service providers with a variety of properties. The PIs are developing necessary services to allow effective cloud-brokerage, such as service selection for consumers, service negotiation between consumers and their service providers, and service agreement delegation among service providers involved in a compound service. Along with the service development, the work will produce new policy analysis, composition and delegation techniques that accommodate the unique characteristics of the cloud.The research in this project will help significantly streamline the selection and management of cloud computing services, and will open up new business opportunities by providing cloud brokerage services. Moreover, the proposed approach may also help reduce the vendor lock-in problem which is a long standing major concern among consumers.

预计未来的云服务将越来越多地参与并综合来自多个云的功能。来自不同组织的应用程序可以建立协作关系并在云计算中动态共享信息。在这种日益复杂的情况下，消费者和服务提供商都将面临新的挑战。例如，消费者将需要能够从潜在的巨大池中识别出最佳的服务提供商，这可能是计算要求的。服务提供商将需要能够确保在松散连接的分包商中共享数据的安全性和隐私。本项目提出了一种基于经纪的新型体系结构，以促进具有成本效益的云提供。具体而言，PI将设计有效的索引结构，以促进由许多具有多种属性的服务提供商生成的大量信息的管理。 PI正在开发必要的服务，以允许有效的云经纪，例如为消费者及其服务提供商之间的服务谈判以及参与复合服务的服务提供商之间的服务协议代表团。除服务开发外，这项工作还将产生新的政策分析，组成和代表团技术，以适应云的独特特征。该项目的研究将有助于简化云计算服务的选择和管理，并将开放新的新通过提供云经纪服务通过提供商机。此外，拟议的方法还可以帮助减少供应商的锁定问题，这是消费者长期以来的主要关注点。