Title
Towards understanding the runtime configuration management of do-it-yourself content delivery network applications over public clouds.
Abstract
Cloud computing is a new paradigm shift which enables applications and related content (audio, video, text, images, etc.) to be provisioned in an on-demand manner and being accessible to anyone anywhere in the world without the need for owning expensive computing and storage infrastructures. Interactive multimedia content-driven applications in the domains of healthcare, aged-care, and education have emerged as one of the new classes of big data applications. This new generation of applications need to support complex content operations including production, deployment, consumption, personalization, and distribution. However, to efficiently provision these applications on the Cloud data centres, there is a need to understand their runtime resource configurations. For example: (i) where to store and distribute the content to and from driven by end-user Service Level Agreements (SLAs)? (ii) How many content distribution servers to provision? And (iii) what Cloud VM configuration (number of instances, types, speed, etc.) to provision? In this paper, we present concepts and factors related to engineering such content-driven applications over public Clouds. Based on these concepts and factors, we propose a performance evaluation methodology for quantifying and understanding the runtime configuration of these classes of applications. Finally, we conduct several benchmark driven experiments for validating the feasibility of the proposed methodology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.future.2013.12.019
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Application runtime configuration,Cloud services evaluation,Content delivery network,Experimental design and analysis,Evaluation methodology,Mediawise cloud content orchestrator,Public clouds
Content delivery network,Computer science,Server,Provisioning,Configuration management,Multimedia,Big data,Interactive media,Personalization,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
37
0167-739X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
37
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zheng Li1508.75
Karan Mitra216917.84
Miranda Zhang3674.89
Rajiv Ranjan44747267.72
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos52554580.54
Albert Y. Zomaya65709454.84
Liam O'Brien736730.01
Shengtao Sun820.40