Paper Info
Title
Software defined cloud: Survey, system and evaluation.
Abstract
Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems must handle. The cloud computing technology has already contributed in alleviating a number of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management. However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes the underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, to mention but few. In many situations the problem may be due to inadequacy of service abstraction. Software Defined Systems (SDSys) is a concept that help abstract the actual hardware at different layers with software components; one classical example of this abstractions are hypervisors. Such abstraction provides an opportunity for system administrators to construct and manage their systems, more easily, through flexible software layers. SDSys is an umbrella for different software defined subsystems including Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage (SDStorage), Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), Software Defined Security (SDSec) etc. and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud). Individual solutions and seamless integration of these different abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. In this paper, the authors introduce Software Defined Cloud (SDCloud), a novel software defined cloud management framework that integrates different software defined cloud components to handle complexities associated with cloud computing systems. The first part of paper presents, for the first time, an extensive state of the art critical review of different components of software defined systems, constructing the proposed SDCloud. The second part of the paper proposes the novel concept of SDCloud, which is implemented and evaluated for its feasibility, flexibility and potential superiority.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.future.2015.10.015
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud computing,Software Defined Systems,Software Defined Security,Software Defined Storage,Software Defined Networking,Software Defined Cloud (SDCloud)
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
0167-739X
17
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
24
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaser Jararweh196888.95
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub273063.41
Ala Darabseh31247.36
Elhadj Benkhelifa423837.76
Mladen A. Vouk545249.92
Andy Rindos61226.21