Towards a blockchain-SDN-based secure architecture for cloud computing in smart industrial IoT

Some of the significant new technologies researched in recent studies include BlockChain(BC),Software Defined Networking(SDN),and Smart Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT).All three technologies provide data integrity,confidentiality,and integrity in their respective use cases(especially in industrial fields).Additionally,cloud computing has been in use for several years now.Confidential information is exchanged with cloud infrastructure to provide clients with access to distant resources,such as computing and storage activities in the IIoT.There are also significant security risks,concerns,and difficulties associated with cloud computing.To address these challenges,we propose merging BC and SDN into a cloud computing platform for the IIoT.This paper introduces“DistB-SDCloud”,an architecture for enhanced cloud security for smart IIoT applications.The proposed architecture uses a distributed BC method to provide security,secrecy,privacy,and integrity while remaining flexible and scalable.Customers in the industrial sector benefit from the dispersed or decentralized,and efficient environment of BC.Additionally,we described an SDN method to improve the durability,stability,and load balancing of cloud infrastructure.The efficacy of our SDN and BC-based implementation was experimentally tested by using various parameters including throughput,packet analysis,response time,bandwidth,and latency analysis,as well as the monitoring of several attacks on the system itself.

Formal Modeling and Discovery of Multi-instance Business Processes: A Cloud Resource Management Case Study

Process discovery, as one of the most challenging process analysis techniques, aims to uncover business process models from event logs. Many process discovery approaches were invented in the past twenty years;however, most of them have difficulties in handling multi-instance sub-processes. To address this challenge, we first introduce a multi-instance business process model(MBPM) to support the modeling of processes with multiple sub-process instantiations. Formal semantics of MBPMs are precisely defined by using multi-instance Petri nets(MPNs)that are an extension of Petri nets with distinguishable tokens.Then, a novel process discovery technique is developed to support the discovery of MBPMs from event logs with sub-process multi-instantiation information. In addition, we propose to measure the quality of the discovered MBPMs against the input event logs by transforming an MBPM to a classical Petri net such that existing quality metrics, e.g., fitness and precision, can be used.The proposed discovery approach is properly implemented as plugins in the Pro M toolkit. Based on a cloud resource management case study, we compare our approach with the state-of-theart process discovery techniques. The results demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing approaches to discover process models with multi-instance sub-processes.

QoS-Aware Dynamic Resource Management in Heterogeneous Mobile Cloud Computing Networks

In mobile cloud computing(MCC) systems,both the mobile access network and the cloud computing network are heterogeneous,implying the diverse configurations of hardware,software,architecture,resource,etc.In such heterogeneous mobile cloud(HMC) networks,both radio and cloud resources could become the system bottleneck,thus designing the schemes that separately and independently manage the resources may severely hinder the system performance.In this paper,we aim to design the network as the integration of the mobile access part and the cloud computing part,utilizing the inherent heterogeneity to meet the diverse quality of service(QoS)requirements of tenants.Furthermore,we propose a novel cross-network radio and cloud resource management scheme for HMC networks,which is QoS-aware,with the objective of maximizing the tenant revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements.The proposed scheme is formulated as a restless bandits problem,whose "indexability" feature guarantees the low complexity with scalable and distributed characteristics.Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the significant performance improvement of the proposed scheme compared to the existing ones.

Cloud Computing Technology and Its Applications

Virtualization and distributed parallel architecture are typical cloud computing technologies. In the area of virtuatization technology, this article discusses physical resource pooling, resource pool management and use, cluster fault location and maintenance, resource pool grouping, and construction and application of heterogeneous virtualization platforms. In the area of distributed technology, distributed file system and KeyNalue storage engine are discussed. A solution is proposed for the host bottleneck problem, and a standard storage interface is proposed for the distributed file system. A directory-based storage scheme for Key/Value storage engine is also proposed.

Intelligent Server Management Framework over Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

With the increasing importance of cloud services worldwide, the cloud infrastructure and platform management has become critical for cloud service providers. In this paper, a novel architecture of intelligent server management framework is proposed. In this framework, the communication layer is based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which was developed for instant messaging and has been proven to be highly mature and suitable for mobile and large scalable deployment due to its extensibility and efficiency. The proposed architecture can simplify server management and increase flexibility and scalability when managing hundreds of thousands of servers in the cloud era.

Implementation and Validation of the Optimized Deduplication Strategy in Federated Cloud Environment

Cloud computing technology is the culmination of technical advancements in computer networks,hardware and software capabilities that collectively gave rise to computing as a utility.It offers a plethora of utilities to its clients worldwide in a very cost-effective way and this feature is enticing users/companies to migrate their infrastructure to cloud platform.Swayed by its gigantic capacity and easy access clients are uploading replicated data on cloud resulting in an unnecessary crunch of storage in datacenters.Many data compression techniques came to rescue but none could serve the purpose for the capacity as large as a cloud,hence,researches were made to de-duplicate the data and harvest the space from exiting storage capacity which was going in vain due to duplicacy of data.For providing better cloud services through scalable provisioning of resources,interoperability has brought many Cloud Service Providers(CSPs)under one umbrella and termed it as Cloud Federation.Many policies have been devised for private and public cloud deployment models for searching/eradicating replicated copies using hashing techniques.Whereas the exploration for duplicate copies is not restricted to any one type of CSP but to a set of public or private CSPs contributing to the federation.It was found that even in advanced deduplication techniques for federated clouds,due to the different nature of CSPs,a single file is stored at private as well as public group in the same cloud federation which can be handled if an optimized deduplication strategy be rendered for addressing this issue.Therefore,this study has been aimed to further optimize a deduplication strategy for federated cloud environment and suggested a central management agent for the federation.It was perceived that work relevant to this is not existing,hence,in this paper,the concept of federation agent has been implemented and deduplication technique following file level has been used for the accomplishment of this approach.

Towards architecture-based management of platforms in the cloud

System management is becoming increasingly complex and brings high costs, especially with the advent of cloud computing. Cloud computing involves numerous platforms often of virtual machines （VMs） and middleware has to be managed to make the whole system work cost- effectively after an application is deployed. In order to re- duce management costs, in particular for the manual activi- ties, many computer programs have been developed remove or reduce the complexity and difficulty of system mamnage- ment. These programs are usually hard-coded in languages like Java and C＋＋, which bring enough capability and flexi- bility but also cause high programming effort and cost. This paper proposes an architecture for developing management programs in a simple but powerful way. First of all, the man- ageability of a given platform （via APIs, configuration files, and scripts） is abstracted as a runtime model of the plat- form＇s software architecture, which can automatically and immediately propagate any observable runtime changes of the target platforms to the corresponding architecture mod- els, and vice versa. The management programs are devel- oped using modeling languages, instead of those relatively low-level programming languages. Architecture-level man- agement programs bring many advantages related to perfor- mance, interoperability, reusability, and simplicity. An experiment on a real-world cloud deployment and comparison with traditional programming language approaches demonstrate the feasibility, effectiveness, and benefits of the new model based approach for management program development.

MN-SLA： A Modular Networking SLA Framework for Cloud Management System

With the proliferation of cloud services and development of fine-grained virtualization techniques, the Cloud Management System （CMS） is required to manage multiple resources efficiently for the large-scale, highdensity computing units. Specifically, providing guaranteed networking Service Level Agreement （SLA） has become a challenge. This paper proposes MN-SLA （Modular Networking SLA）, a framework to provide networking SLA and to enable its seamless integration with existing CMSes. Targeting at a modular, general, robust, and efficient design, MN-SLA abstracts general interacting Application Programming Interfaces （APIs） between CMS and SLA subsystem, and it is able to accomplish the integration with minor modifications to CMS. The evaluations based on large scale simulation show that the proposed networking SLA scheduling is promising in terms of resource utilization, being able to accommodate at least 1.4x the number of instances of its competitors.