Paper Info
Title
ReLoC: A Resilient Loosely Coupled Application Architecture for State Management in the Cloud
Abstract
Maintaining the state of applications and user sessions is difficult in large scale web-based software systems. This problem is particularly accentuated in the context of Cloud computing as Cloud providers, especially Platform as a Service (PaaS) vendors, do not explicitly support state management infrastructure - such as clustering. In a PaaS environment, a user has little or no access and control over the server platform and session management layer. Additionally, the platform tiers are generally loosely coupled and service-oriented. These make traditional session-state management techniques non-usable. In this work, we present ReLoC - a session-state management architecture for Cloud that uses loosely-coupled services and platform agnostic scalable messaging technology to propagate and save session states. Preliminary experiments show a very high level of tolerance to failures of the platform tiers without corresponding disruptions in user sessions. We argue that, in the context of PaaS Clouds, ReLoC architecture will be more scalable compared to traditional clustering environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CLOUD.2012.130
IEEE CLOUD
Keywords
Field
DocType
user session,platform agnostic scalable,cloud provider,cloud computing,session management layer,state management,state management infrastructure,platform tier,server platform,traditional session-state management technique,resilient loosely,application architecture,session-state management architecture,computer architecture,servers,databases
Architecture,Applications architecture,State management,Computer science,Server,Real-time computing,Software system,Cluster analysis,Cloud computing,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vibhu Saujanya Sharma117421.65
Shubhashis Sengupta215821.17
K. M. Annervaz3174.58