Maximizing quality of experience through context‐aware mobile application scheduling in cloudlet infrastructure

Application software execution requests, from mobile devices to cloud service providers, are often heterogeneous in terms of device, network, and application runtime contexts. These heterogeneous contexts include the remaining battery level of a mobile device, network signal strength it receives and quality‐of‐service (QoS) requirement of an application software submitted from that device. Scheduling such application software execution requests (from many mobile devices) on competent virtual machines to enhance user quality of experience (QoE) is a multi‐constrained optimization problem. However, existing solutions in the literature either address utility maximization problem for service providers or optimize the application QoS levels, bypassing device‐level and network‐level contextual information. In this paper, a multi‐objective nonlinear programming solution to the context‐aware application software scheduling problem has been developed, namely, QoE and context‐aware scheduling (QCASH) method, which minimizes the application execution times (i.e., maximizes the QoE) and maximizes the application execution success rate. To the best of our knowledge, QCASH is the first work in this domain that inscribes the optimal scheduling problem for mobile application software execution requests with three‐dimensional context parameters. In QCASH, the context priority of each application is measured by applying min–max normalization and multiple linear regression models on three context parameters—battery level, network signal strength, and application QoS. Experimental results, found from simulation runs on CloudSim toolkit, demonstrate that the QCASH outperforms the state‐of‐the‐art works well across the success rate, waiting time, and QoE. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mobile edge-enabled trust evaluation for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT), including wireless sensors, is one of the highly anticipated contributors to big data; therefore, avoiding misleading or forged data gathering in cases of sensitive and critical data through secure communication is vital. However, due to the relatively long distance between remote cloud and end nodes, cloud computing cannot provide effective and direct management for end nodes, which leads to security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel trust evaluation model based on the trust transitivity on a chain assisted by mobile edge nodes, which is used to ensure the reliability of nodes in the Internet of Things and prevent malicious attacks. The mobile edge nodes offer a new solution to solve the above problems with relatively strong computing and storage abilities. Firstly, we design calculation approaches to different trust chains to measure their trust degrees. Secondly, we propose an improved Dijkstra’s algorithm for collecting trust information of sensor nodes by mobile edge nodes. Finally, the experimental results show that our trust model based on mobile edge nodes can evaluate sensor nodes more precisely and enhance the security on the Internet of Things.     

Middleware for Internet of Things: Survey and Challenges

The Internet of things (IoT) applications span many potential fields. Furthermore, smart homes, smart cities, smart vehicular networks, and healthcare are very attractive and intelligent applications. In most of these applications, the system consists of smart objects that are equipped by sensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and may rely on other technological computing and paradigm solutions such as M2M (machine to machine) computing, Wifi, Wimax, LTE, cloud computing, etc. Thus, the IoT vision foresees that we can shift from traditional sensor networks to pervasive systems, which deliver intelligent automation by running services on objects. Actually, a significant attention has been given to designing a middleware that supports many features; heterogeneity, mobility, scalability, multiplicity, and security. This papers reviews the-state-of-the-art techniques for IoT middleware systems and reveals an interesting classification for these systems into service and agent-oriented systems. Therefore two visions have emerged to provide the IoT middleware systems: Via designing the middleware for IoT system as an eco-system of services or as an eco-system of agents. The most common feature of the two approaches is the ability to overcome heterogeneity issues. However, the agent approach provides context awareness and intelligent elements. The review presented in this paper includes a detailed comparison between the IoT middleware approaches. The paper also explores challenges that form directions for future research on IoT middleware systems. Some of the challenges arise, because some crucial features are not provided (or at most partially provided) by the existing middleware systems, while others have not been yet tackled by current research in IoT.     

电力物联网中5G边缘计算技术的研究

为解决电力物联网中海量设备接入诉求,云服务器集中处理架构逐渐向边缘计算模式演进, 电力物联网演进为云、网、边、端四层模型。本文根据现有电力业务类型和传输需求,分析了电力物联网中边缘计算面临的技术难点,提出采用基于时隙的灵活调度,并结合自时隙结构和灵活时隙配置等方案改进边缘计算网络中的端到端时延; 采用基于5QI配置及ARP优先级方案提升电力物联网中业务保障效果,采用业务安全隔离是保障电力业务安全运行。文章最后给出了基于5G技术的边缘计算网关体系架设和技术特点,指出可以充分利用基于5G的创新技术, 提升电力物联网中边缘计算有效性和安全性,满足电力物联网蓬勃应用的需要。     

物联网与数据挖掘云服务

物联网与云计算是目前信息技术的研究热点,探讨数据挖掘在其中扮演的角色,以及与这2项技术相结合的方式.分析了数据挖掘在物联网中的地位和作用,指出了云计算是物联网的基石,剖析了分布式数据挖掘与并行数据挖掘的异同,说明了物联网中数据挖掘服务的提供方式.     

植入城市计算综述

物联网通过感知技术实现物品与互联网的连接,云计算通过对共享资源的灵活整合和动态配置为用户提供面向需求的服务。基于上述背景,定义了植入城市计算的基本概念和功能框架,以植入城市计算应用场景为研究对象,比较了物联网技术与传统方法的数据采集、服务提供,论述了在人与环境交互中的感知应用部署、数据捕获、信息传播,阐述了云计算面向用户提供的数据管理服务、感知应用服务、位置查询服务。围绕植入城市计算的安全和隐私问题,对RFID隐私保护和身份认证、无线传感器网络密钥管理、参与感知隐私匿名化、云计算可信访问控制等进行了分析,并提出了进一步的研究方向。     

云化物联网在智慧物流的研究与应用

随着云计算和物联网研究的不断深入,云计算和物联网技术在物流行业的研究与应用逐渐成为热点,本文在分析云计算、物联网概念和架构的基础上,阐述智慧物流的概念,提出基于云化物联网的智慧物流体系和功能模块设计方案,为智慧物流的发展提供一种可行并且有效的模式,实现物流行业的智能化、信息化和系统自动化。     

基于云计算与物联网的智能后勤系统设计

分析现阶段军队后勤保障存在的问题,阐述了将物联网和云计算结合应用于军队后勤保障的优势,提出了基于云计算与物联网的“智能后勤”理念,给出了“智能后勤”保障系统的体系架构,设计并实现了基于物联网与云计算技术的油料管理系统。     

Architecting cloud‐enabled systems: a systematic survey of challenges and solutions

The literature on the challenges of and potential solutions to architecting cloud‐based systems is rapidly growing but is scattered. It is important to systematically analyze and synthesize the existing research on architecting cloud‐based software systems in order to build a cohesive body of knowledge of the reported challenges and solutions. We have systematically identified and reviewed 133 papers that report architecture‐related challenges and solutions for cloud‐based software systems. This paper reports the methodological details, findings, and implications of a systematic review that has enabled us to identify 44 unique categories of challenges and associated solutions for architecting cloud‐based software systems. We assert that the identified challenges and solutions classified into the categories form a body of knowledge that can be leveraged for designing or evaluating software architectures for cloud‐based systems. Our key conclusions are that a large number of primary studies focus on middleware services aimed at achieving scalability, performance, response time, and efficient resource optimization. Architecting cloud‐based systems presents unique challenges as the systems to be designed range from pervasive embedded systems and enterprise applications to smart devices with Internet of Things. We also conclude that there is a huge potential of research on architecting cloud‐based systems in areas related to green computing, energy efficient systems, mobile cloud computing, and Internet of Things. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

云计算在物联网中的应用

现阶段,物联网正在大规模发展,其产生的数据量将会远远超过互联网的数据量,海量数据的存储与计算处理需要云计算技术。本文从云计算的基本概念、服务层次、关键技术及应用范围几个方面对云计算在物联网中的应用进行了探讨。     

面向云计算的数据中心网络体系结构设计

近年来,云计算技术的蓬勃发展为整个IT行业带来了巨大变革.传统数据中心网络拓扑构建方式及网络层控制平面的运行机制存在固化性,已经难以满足新形势下日益增长的高性能及高性价比需求,并且无法支持云环境下更加灵活的按带宽租赁数据中心网络的运营方式.因此,提出了一种通过低造价的可编程交换机来构建具有高连通性的非树状数据中心网络的方式,并设计了可编程交换机与服务器2.5层代理协同工作的基于凸优化的虚拟网络带宽控制管理机制,从而提供足够的灵活性以对资源虚拟化技术提供更好的支持.实验表明,新型体系结构在降低构建成本的同时大幅提高了数据中心网络的吞吐量并提供了更加灵活的网络带宽分配机制.     

Bandwidth‐aware divisible task scheduling for cloud computing

Task scheduling is a fundamental issue in achieving high efficiency in cloud computing. However, it is a big challenge for efficient scheduling algorithm design and implementation (as general scheduling problem is NP‐complete). Most existing task‐scheduling methods of cloud computing only consider task resource requirements for CPU and memory, without considering bandwidth requirements. In order to obtain better performance, in this paper, we propose a bandwidth‐aware algorithm for divisible task scheduling in cloud‐computing environments. A nonlinear programming model for the divisible task‐scheduling problem under the bounded multi‐port model is presented. By solving this model, the optimized allocation scheme that determines proper number of tasks assigned to each virtual resource node is obtained. On the basis of the optimized allocation scheme, a heuristic algorithm for divisible load scheduling, called bandwidth‐aware task‐scheduling (BATS) algorithm, is proposed. The performance of algorithm is evaluated using CloudSim toolkit. Experimental result shows that, compared with the fair‐based task‐scheduling algorithm, the bandwidth‐only task‐scheduling algorithm, and the computation‐only task‐scheduling algorithm, the proposed algorithm (BATS) has better performance. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

GSAGA: A hybrid algorithm for task scheduling in cloud infrastructure

Cloud computing is becoming a very popular form of distributed computing, in which digital resources are shared via the Internet. The user is provided with an overview of many available resources. Cloud providers want to get the most out of their resources, and users are inclined to pay less for better performance. Task scheduling is one of the most important aspects of cloud computing. In order to achieve high performance from cloud computing systems, tasks need to be scheduled for processing by appropriate computing resources. The large search space of this issue makes it an NP-hard problem, and more random search methods are required to solve this problem. Multiple solutions have been proposed with several algorithms to solve this problem until now. This paper presents a hybrid algorithm called GSAGA to solve the Task Scheduling Problem (TSP) in cloud computing. Although it has a high ability to search the problem space, the Genetic Algorithm (GA) performs poorly in terms of stability and local search. It is therefore possible to create a stable algorithm by combining the general search capacities of the GA with the Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA). Our experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can solve the problem with higher efficiency compared with the state-of-the-art.

     

云内部安全通信模型研究

云计算是互联网发展的趋势,也是物联网应用的重要技术支撑。随着云计算的深入应用,云计算安全问题成为最引人关注的焦点之一。在分析云计算一般框架结构的基础上,根据云计算服务器可统一管理的特点,针对云内部的通信安全问题设计了一种云内部简单安全通信模型（SSCMIC）,通过同步密钥流实现密文通信,以增强云的安全性。     

动态计算网络:一种面向物联网的普适计算框架

随着物联网的发展,大量不同的设备通过各种不同的方式连接到物联网中,使普适计算环境更加复杂和多样化,因此要求在物联网环境下的普适计算框架能适应新的计算条件的变化。提出了一种新的普适计算框架,以便在物联网环境中普适计算系统能够自动适应复杂多样的软硬件运行环境,使软件无需修改就可以在整个物联网环境中任意地执行,实现普适计算的服务发现、上下文感知与服务迁移功能。提出物联网环境下普适计算的基本运算单元为"动态计算网络",使用"设备动态匹配"作为普适计算软件自动适应环境的解决方案。提出的动态计算网络增强了普适计算软件对物联网环境的适应性,为面向物联网的通用软件系统设计提供了一种有效的解决方法。     

云计算农田会商平台规划和设计

面向西北旱区农业,基于云计算、大数据和物联网技术的集成应用会商平台,利用卫星、无人机和地面传感网等多遥感平台,对耕地平整、水肥药精准作业装备进行作业调度,形成精准作业调度、遥感的空间决策支持、多源农情信息视频会商、以及农情遥感信息适时发布系统于一体的综合性、业务化的会商服务平台.该平台提供专家会商、水肥管理、病害诊断防治、旱情预测预报和农业遥感信息适时发布等服务.     

交通物联网的发展现状及趋势研究

针对交通物联网（即物联网在交通运输行业中的应用）发展的现状和趋势进行了研究, 在分析了国外IntelliDrive、eSafety和Smartway等项目以及国内主要交通物联网系统的基础上, 从安全性、环保型、移动性三个方面讨论了国内外交通物联网发展的异同点, 并进一步探讨了交通物联网未来的发展和应用前景, 即在充分利用车路协同技术来提高交通安全水平的同时, 加快交通物联网与云计算的结合, 构建交通运输云, 在统一的交通物联网标准体系和适宜的交通物联网运营模式下, 建立起综合开放的交通运输信息系统。     

云计算在电子政务系统中的应用研究

云计算是指IP技术架构下的网络计算,云计算技术将不仅提供传统意义的IT资源和应用服务,而且将支持包括IT、通信、电视、移动和物联等一切互联网技术融合后的资源使用和业务应用。本文着重介绍云计算数据库的基本思想和实现过程中需要解决的基本问题,论述利用云计算构建电子政务系统的模型和实现方案。云计算以其安全可靠的数据存储和强大的计算能力,必将对电子政务系统的信息化建设产生积极的影响。     

An adaptive meta-heuristic search for the internet of things

The number of sensors deployed around the world is growing at a rapid pace when we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT). The widespread deployment of these sensors represents significant financial investment and technical achievement. These sensors continuously generate enormous amounts of data which is capable of supporting an almost unlimited set of high value proposition applications for users. Given that, effectively and efficiently searching and selecting the most related sensors of a user’s interest has recently become a crucial challenge. In this paper, inspired by ant clustering algorithm, we propose an effective context-aware method to cluster sensors in the form of Sensor Semantic Overlay Networks (SSONs) in which sensors with similar context information are gathered into one cluster. Firstly, sensors are grouped based on their types to create SSONs. Then, our meta-heuristic algorithm called AntClust has been performed to cluster sensors using their context information. Furthermore, useful adjustments have been applied to reduce the cost of sensor search process and an adaptive strategy is proposed to maintain the performance against dynamicity in the IoT environment. Experiments show the scalability and adaptability of AntClust in clustering sensors. It is significantly faster on sensor search when compared with other approaches.     

基于BP神经网络在物联网多敏感信息同源检索

针对物联网中多用户相似源敏感信息检索方法运算速度慢、结果质量较差问题,提出一种物联网多敏感信息同源检索算法.准确分析物联网各应用层,构建隐层的3层BP神经网络模型,引入动态因子的学习算法,结合多维仿生信息理论的点同源连续性规则,推导出多敏感信息同源相似度特征,排序信息同源相似度特征的相关性级别并输出,最终完成物联网多敏...