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Interconnecting Federated Clouds by Using Publish-Subscribe Service

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Cloud Federation is an emerging computing model where multiple resources from independent Cloud providers are leveraged to create large-scale distributed virtual computing clusters, operating as into a single Cloud organization. This model enables the implementation of environmental diversity for Cloud applications, and overcomes the provisioning and scalability limits of a single Cloud, by introducing minimal additional cost for the Cloud consumer. In such a scenario, it is necessary to leverage on specific networking technologies that enable the effective support of inter-Cloud communication services between Cloud providers. This paper proposes an interconnection solution for Cloud federations based on publish/subscribe services. Moreover, we discuss some fundamental concerns needed to satisfy the inter-Cloud communication requirements in terms of reliability and availability. Finally, we present some experimental results that highlight some key reliability and denial of service vulnerability concerns in this domain.

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    Christian Esposito

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    Massimo Ficco & Francesco Palmieri

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084, Fisciano, SA, Italy

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Esposito, C., Ficco, M., Palmieri, F. et al. Interconnecting Federated Clouds by Using Publish-Subscribe Service. Cluster Comput 16, 887–903 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-013-0261-z

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