Quality of service‐aware approaches in fog computing

In recent years, fog computing, a novel paradigm, has emerged for location and latency‐sensitive applications. It is a powerful complement for cloud computing that enables provisioning services and resources outside the cloud near the end devices. In a fog system, the existence of several nonhomogenous devices, which are potentially mobile, led to quality of service (QoS) worries. QoS‐aware approaches are presented in various parts of the fog system, and several different QoS factors are taken into account. In spite of the importance of QoS in fog computing, no comprehensive study on QoS‐aware approaches exists in fog computing. Hence, this paper reviews the current research used to guarantee QoS in fog computing. This paper investigates the QoS‐ensuring techniques that fall into three categories: service/resource management, communication management, and application management (published between 2013 and October 2018). Regarding the selected approaches, this paper represents merits, demerits, tools, evaluation types, and QoS factors. Finally, on the basis of the reviewed studies, we suggest some open issues and challenges which are worth further studying and researching in QoS‐aware approaches in fog computing.     

面向移动云计算的自适应服务选择方法研究

Despite the rapid advances in mobile tech-nology, many constraints still prevent mobile de-vices from running resource-demanding applica-tions in mobile environments. Cloud computing with flexibility, stability and scalability enables ac-cess to unlimited resources for mobile devices, so more studies have focused on cloud computing- based mobile services. Due to the stability of wire-less networks, changes of Quality of Service (QoS) level and user' real-time preferences, it is becoming challenging to determine how to adaptively choose the “appropriate”service in mobile cloud compu-ting environments. In this paper, we present an a-daptive service selection method. This method first extracts user preferences from a service's evaluation and calculates the similarity of the service with the weighted Euclidean distance. Then, they are com-bined with user context data and the most suitable service is recommended to the user. In addition, we apply the fuzzy cognitive maps-based model to the adaptive policy, which improves the efficiency and performance of the algorithm. Finally, the experi-ment and simulation demonstrate that our approach is effective.     

移动云计算安全问题及安全度量方法浅析

移动云计算安全度量是云计算安全中的一个研究领域,主要是研究采用手机等移动终端设备,通过移动互联网使用云计算服务过程中的安全问题及安全度量方法。本文分析了目前移动云计算行业发展过程中存在的安全问题,指出了这些安全问题是阻碍用户使用云计算服务的关键,分析了传统的安全度量方法在移动云计算中的应用的优缺点,并在此基础上提出了一种基于场景的移动云计算安全度量方法,该方法可以有效度量和展示用户正在使用的云计算服务的安全情况,可以解除用户对于安全的顾虑,让用户放心使用。     

A Survey of Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is emerging as one of the most important branches of cloud computing. In this paper, MCC is defined as cloud computing extended by mobility, and a new ad-hoc infrastructure based on mobile devices. It provides mobile users with data storage and processing services on a cloud computing platform. Because mobile cloud computing is still in its infancy, we aim to clarify confusion that has arisen from different views. Existing works are reviewed, and an overview of recent advances in mobile cloud computing is provided. We investigate representative infrastructures of mobile cloud computing and analyze key components. Moreover, emerging MCC models and services are discussed, and challenging issues are identified that will need to be addressed in future work.     

战术云在战术边缘的应用研究

随着网络中心战的发展,战术边缘的态势感知和信息处理能力对瞬息万变的战争局势的影响越来越大。基于云计算技术的战术云可以为战术边缘提供强大的计算、存储和信息处理能力,分析对比了目前外军主要的四种战术云架构的技术特点,并以微云架构为基础,提出了一种基于软件定义的战术云方案,该方案可以灵活地为战术边缘的移动设备提供各种应用服务,同时可以保障业务的QoS以及优化无线资源的利用率。     

移动互联网环境下的云计算安全技术体系架构

文章在研究分析云计算安全风险和安全技术体系架构的基础上,结合移动互联网的特点,设计了一个多层次、多级别、弹性、跨平台和统一用户接口的移动互联网通用云计算安全技术体系架构。该架构可实现不同等级的差异化云安全服务,其中跨层的云安全管理平台可对整个系统的运维安全情况进行跨安全域和跨安全级别的监控。     

异构移动云计算网络中基于QoS的动态资源管理研究(英文)

In mobile cloud computing(MCC) systems,both the mobile access network and the cloud computing network are heterogeneous,implying the diverse configurations of hardware,software,architecture,resource,etc.In such heterogeneous mobile cloud(HMC) networks,both radio and cloud resources could become the system bottleneck,thus designing the schemes that separately and independently manage the resources may severely hinder the system performance.In this paper,we aim to design the network as the integration of the mobile access part and the cloud computing part,utilizing the inherent heterogeneity to meet the diverse quality of service(QoS)requirements of tenants.Furthermore,we propose a novel cross-network radio and cloud resource management scheme for HMC networks,which is QoS-aware,with the objective of maximizing the tenant revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements.The proposed scheme is formulated as a restless bandits problem,whose "indexability" feature guarantees the low complexity with scalable and distributed characteristics.Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the significant performance improvement of the proposed scheme compared to the existing ones.     

Task scheduling mechanisms in cloud computing: A systematic review

Today, cloud computing has developed as one of the important emergent technologies in communication and Internet. It offers on demand, pay per use access to infrastructure, platforms, and applications. Due to the increase in its popularity, the huge number of requests need to be handled in an efficient manner. Task scheduling as one of the challenges in the cloud computing supports the requests for assigning a particular resource so as to perform effectively. In the resource management, task scheduling is performed where there is the dependency between tasks. Many approaches and case studies have been developed for the scheduling of these tasks. Up to now, a systematic literature review (SLR) has not been presented to discover and evaluate the task scheduling approaches in the cloud computing environment. To overcome, this paper presents an SLR‐based analysis on the task scheduling approaches that classify into (a) single cloud environments that evaluate cost‐aware, energy‐aware, multi‐objective, and QoS‐aware approaches in task scheduling; (b) multicloud environment that evaluates cost‐aware, multi‐objective, and QoS‐aware task scheduling; and (c) mobile cloud environment that is energy‐aware and QoS‐aware task scheduling. The analytical discussions are provided to show the advantages and limitations of the existing approaches.     

An Effective QoS-Constrained Scheduling Scheme for Cloud Computing Services

Cloud computing is becoming a hot topic of the information industry in recent years. Many companies provide the cloud services, such as Google Apps and Apple multimedia services. In general, by applying the virtualization technologies, the data center is built for cloud computing to provide users with the computing and storage resources, as well as the software environment. Thus, the quality of service (QoS) must be considered to satisfy users' requirements. This paper proposes a high efficiency scheduling scheme for supporting cloud computing. The virtual machine migration technique has been applied to the proposed scheduling scheme for improving the resources utilization and satisfying the QoS requirement of users. The experimental results show that in addition to satisfying the QoS requirement of users, the proposed scheme can improve the resources utilization effectively.     

移动IPv4/IPv6虚拟机迁移系统设计

为充分利用异构网络资源建设云计算基础平台,满足云计算平台的资源需求,文中设计了一种基于隧道技术、前缀管理、地址池管理协作及移动IP的IPv4/IPv6虚拟机迁移过渡框架.框架将传统IPv4/IPv6过渡技术与移动IP技术应用于云计算平台的虚拟机迁移,利用过渡控制引擎作为核心与开发的IPv4/IPv6插件交互完成虚拟机迁移.经实验验证框架建立的网络结构可向客户端跨IPv4/IPv6网络提供云计算服务适用于IPv4虚拟机与IPv6虚拟机之间的无缝迁移.该框架可应用于IPv4/IPv6过渡期间云计算基础平台建设.