A Cloud Computing Framework For Sharing Of Cloud Resources And Attacks Information Amongst Cloud Networks

A Cloud Computing Framework For Sharing Of Cloud Resources And Attacks Information Amongst Cloud Networks (IIUM PRESS)

Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering computing resources over the Internet. This research proposed a cross-cloud communication framework (C3F) for enabling communication among clouds with minimal management burden. Further, it enabled the borrowing and lending of resources among clouds whenever required to fulfil the client requests. It also facilitated to share the information of attacks and intruding entities to cater with same attacks on different clouds. The framework was deployed using web-based prototype development to test and validate the cross-cloud communication. The prototype was developed using open source technologies. Moreover, algorithms were developed using low level description technique for the processes of resource borrowing and lending and, sharing of attacks information. The algorithms were analyzed to test their asymptotic running time complexity, and programmed in accordance with prototype of the study for testing and validation. The results showed high success rate of 94.4% for sharing of resources among clouds with mean allocation time of 12 microseconds. It was observed that 94.4% of the time clients’ requests were fulfilled successfully after borrowing the resources from cloud network. An average of 100% results were collected for protecting multiple clouds from same attack by sharing the attacks and intruders information among clouds in different situations. It is therefore concluded that cross-cloud communication framework can benefit for sharing of resources and attacks information among clouds for efficient resource management and allocation and, protection against same attacks at different clouds.

A Cloud Computing Framework for Sharing of Cloud Resources and Attacks Information Amongst Cloud Networks

Cloud Computing

In the era of the Internet of Things and Big Data, Cloud Computing has recently emerged as one of the latest buzzwords in the computing industry. It is the latest evolution of computing, where IT recourses are offered as services. Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable, device-independent, and reliable services to its users. The exponential growth of digital data bundled with the needs of analysis, processing and storage, and cloud computing has paved the way for a cheap, secure, and omnipresent computing framework allowing for the delivery of enormous computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. The term cloud is often used as a metaphor for the Internet and can be defined as a new type of utility computing that basically uses servers that have been made available to third parties via the Internet.