Intelligent Cloud Computing: First International Conference, ICC 2014, Muscat, Oman, February 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 8993)

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Post-conference Proceedings Of The First International Conference On Intelligent Cloud Computing, Held In Muscat, Oman, In February 2014. The 10 Revised Full Papers Presented Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From 18 Submissions. The Papers Cover Topics In The Areas Of Resource Management And Energy Efficiency And Security. They Include 5 Invited Talks From Leading Organizations Working In Cloud Computing In Oman And In The Region. Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing A Utility -- Semantic Engine And Cloud Agency For Vendor Agnostic Retrieval, Discovery, And Brokering Of Cloud Services -- A Concurrency Mitigation Proposal For Sharing Environments: An Affinity Approach Based On Applications Classes -- On Cloud Spot Market: An Overview Of The Research -- Analysis And Optimization On Flexdpdp: A Practical Solution For Dynamic Provable Data Possession -- Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking And Mobile Cloud Computing To Exploit Short-lived Relationships Among Users On The Move -- Energy Consumption Analysis Of Hpc Applications Using Nosql Database Feature Of Energy Analyzer -- A Low-overhead Secure Communication Framework For An Inter-cloud Environment -- Analysing Virtual Machine Security In Cloud Systems -- Cloud Computing: Security Issues Overview And Solving Techniques Investigation. Edited By Asma Al-saidi, Rudolf Fleischer, Zakaria Maamar, Omer F. Rana. Preface 6 Organization 8 Contents 10 Invited Papers 12 Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing a Utility 13 1 Cloud Computing Challenges 13 1.1 Cloud Security 13 1.2 Cloud Applications 14 1.3 Cloud Programming 14 1.4 QoS in Clouds 15 1.5 Energy-Efficient Clouds 15 1.6 Cloud + X Architectures 16 1.7 Cloud Storage Systems 16 1.8 Cloud Legal Frameworks and Standards 17 Semantic Engine and Cloud Agency for Vendor Agnostic Retrieval, Discovery, and Brokering of Cloud Services 18 1 Introduction 18 2 Approach and Architecture 20 3 An Ontology for the Development of Cloud Based Application 21 4 Semantic Engine 24 5 Cloud Agency 26 6 A Concrete Use Case 29 7 Related Works 31 8 Conclusion 33 References 33 A Concurrency Mitigation Proposal for Sharing Environments: An Affinity Approach Based on Applications Classes 36 1 Introduction 36 2 Virtual Environment Concurrency and Affinity 37 3 Applications and Dwarfs 39 4 Methodology 43 4.1 Experimental Infrastructure 44 4.2 Results Analysis 44 4.3 Results and Conclusions 51 5 Final Considerations 52 References 53 On Cloud Spot Market: An Overview of the Research 56 1 Introduction 56 2 Consumption Chain of the Spot Instance Service: A Role-Based Categorization of the Current Research 58 2.1 Studies Related to Service Provider 58 2.2 Studies Related to Service Consumer 60 2.3 Studies Related to Typical Applications 60 2.4 Studies Related to Service Broker (or Secondary Provider) 60 3 Underlying Meaning of Spot Prices: An Exploration of the Technical Investigations 61 3.1 Service Pricing 61 3.2 Resource Supplying 64 3.3 Consumer Requesting 65 3.4 Service Availability 66 3.5 Service Fault Tolerance 66 4 Conclusions 67 References 69 Resource Management & Energy 72 Analysis and Optimization on FlexDPDP: A Practical Solution for Dynamic Provable Data Possession 73 1 Introduction 73 2 Related Work 74 3 Preliminaries 75 4 Optimizations on FlexDPDP 77 4.1 Parallel Build FlexList 78 4.2 Handling Multiple Updates at Once 79 4.3 Verifying Multiple Updates at Once 81 5 Experimental Evaluation 83 5.1 Parallel Build FlexList Performance 83 5.2 Server-Side Multi Update Operations 84 5.3 Client-Side Multi Update Operations 85 5.4 Real Usage Performance Analysis via PlanetLab 85 6 Conclusion and Future Work 88 7 Appendix: Optimization Algorithms 89 References 89 Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Cloud Computing to Exploit Short-Lived Relationships Among Users on the Move 92 1 Introduction 92 2 The SPORANGIUM Platform 93 3 Sample Application Scenarios 96 3.1 SPORANGIUM Features for Venues 96 3.2 SPORANGIUM Features for Vehicular Social Networking 97 3.3 SPORANGIUM Features for the Smart City 99 4 The Key to It All: Virtualization 100 4.1 Simulation Results 102 4.2 Discussion 107 5 Conclusions 108 References 108 Energy Consumption Analysis of HPC Applications Using NoSQL Database Feature of EnergyAnalyzer 111 1 Introduction 111 2 Related Work 113 3 EnergyAnalyzer Design 114 3.1 SSTranslator 115 3.2 Semantic-Based Analysis Agents 115 3.3 Monitoring Manager 115 4 EAPerfDB of EnergyAnalyzer 116 4.1 EAPerfDB Initialization 116 4.2 EAPerfDB Clients 117 4.3 Parallel Mongo Clients 118 4.4 Performance Data and Data Access Pattern 119 5 Experimentation - Results and Discussions 120 5.1 SSTranslator - HPCC Instrumentation 121 5.2 Monitoring Manager and EAPerfDB 121 5.3 Energy Consumption and Execution Time - HPCC Results 122 5.4 Online Analysis - EAPerfDB Capability 123 6 Conclusion 124 References 124 Security 127 A Low-Overhead Secure Communication Framework for an Inter-cloud Environment 128 1 Introduction 128 2 Related Work 130 3 Design and Architecture 132 3.1 Peer-to-Peer Overlay 132 3.2 Secure Service Based Resource Discovery 134 3.3 Secure Virtual Private Connections 136 4 Implementation 137 5 Evaluation 137 5.1 Service Latency 138 5.2 Service Throughput 139 5.3 Secure Resource Discovery Overheads 140 6 Conclusion 141 References 141 Analysing Virtual Machine Security in Cloud Systems 144 1 Introduction 144 2 Cloud Computing 145 3 Virtualisation 146 3.1 Overview 146 3.2 Hypervisor 146 3.3 Virtualisation in Cloud Computing 148 4 Cloud Privacy 148 5 Virtualisation Security 149 5.1 Hypervisor-Related Attacks 149 5.2 VM-Related Attacks 150 5.3 Guest OS-Related Attacks 151 6 Data Recovery in VMs 151 7 Experiment Methodology 151 7.1 The Preparation Phase 152 7.2 Deletion Phase 152 7.3 VM Imaging Phase 152 7.4 Mounting Phase 153 7.5 Recovery Phase 154 8 Discussion and Conclusion 155 References 156 Cloud Computing: Security Issues Overview and Solving Techniques Investigation 159 1 Introduction 159 2 Analysis of Cloud Computing Security Issues 162 2.1 Analysis of SaaS Service Security Issues 162 2.2 Analysis of PaaS Service Security Issues 163 2.3 Analysis of IaaS Service Security Issues 163 2.4 Analysis of Audit and Compliance Security Issues 164 3 Cloud Computing Security Issues Key Solving Technology Research 165 3.1 Trusted Cloud Computing Technology 166 3.2 Shared Storage Security Technology 166 3.3 Virtualization Security Technology 167 3.4 Network Application Security Technology 167 3.5 Identity and Access Control Technology 167 3.6 Audit and SLA Management Technology 168 3.7 Compliance Standards and Risk Technology 168 4 The Proposed Cloud Security Technology Reference Model 169 5 Conclusion and Future Works 171 References 172 Author Index 175 Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing a Utility....Pages 3-7 Semantic Engine and Cloud Agency for Vendor Agnostic Retrieval, Discovery, and Brokering of Cloud Services....Pages 8-25 A Concurrency Mitigation Proposal for Sharing Environments: An Affinity Approach Based on Applications Classes....Pages 26-45 On Cloud Spot Market: An Overview of the Research....Pages 46-61 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Analysis and Optimization on FlexDPDP: A Practical Solution for Dynamic Provable Data Possession....Pages 65-83 Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Cloud Computing to Exploit Short-Lived Relationships Among Users on the Move....Pages 84-102 Energy Consumption Analysis of HPC Applications Using NoSQL Database Feature of EnergyAnalyzer....Pages 103-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 A Low-Overhead Secure Communication Framework for an Inter-cloud Environment....Pages 121-136 Analysing Virtual Machine Security in Cloud Systems....Pages 137-151 Cloud Computing: Security Issues Overview and Solving Techniques Investigation....Pages 152-167 Back Matter....Pages 169-169