A cloud service selection model using improved ranked voting method

Cloud computing is an upcoming and promising solution for utility computing that provides resources on demand. As it has grown into a business model, a large number of cloud service providers exist today in the cloud market, which further is expanding exponentially. Many cloud service providers, with almost similar functionality, pose a selection problem to the cloud users. To assist the users in the best service selection, as per its requirement, a framework has been developed in which users list their quality of service (QoS) expectation, while service providers express their offerings. Experience of the existing cloud users is also taken into account in order to select the best cloud service provider. This work identifies some new QoS metrics, besides few existing ones, and defines it in a way that eases both the user and the provider to express their expectations and offers, respectively, in a quantified manner. Further, a dynamic and flexible model, using a variant of ranked voting method, is proposed that considers users' requirement and suggests the best cloud service provider. Case studies affirm the correctness and the effectiveness of the proposed model. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

智能社区云服务平台及服务模式研究

为满足人们对家居系统智能化的要求,提出将云服务应用于智能家居系统,以实现智能家居物联网系统和外部云计算平台的对接,从而形成高度智能化的云枉区,最终达到一站式服务于用户的目的。文中结合云计算技术给出了一种云服务平台的构建方法,该方法可提供不同用户的多种云服务模式,达到用最少的资源提供最多的服务这一目标。     

基于时间感知排序的云服务QoS预测方法研究

随着云计算理论和技术的成熟,越来越多的云服务得到了蓬勃发展,如何建立高质量的云服务成为了云计算研究领域的一个关键难题。服务质量QoS排序为用户从一系列功能相似的云服务候选者中挑选最优云服务提供了非常有价值的信息。为了获得云服务的QoS值,就需要调用真实的候选云服务。为了避免时间消耗和昂贵的资源浪费,提出了一种基于时间感知排序的云服务QoS预测方法。不同于传统的QoS值预测,基于QoS排序相似度的预测考虑为特定用户检测服务的排序。分时段按权计算出排序相似度,结合时间偏好合成相似度的前k位用户,用来提供信息支持QoS的缺失预测。在WS Dream真实数据集进行的实验研究表明,基于时间感知排序的云服务QoS预测方法有更好的预测精度。     

云环境下基于服务等级协议的信任评估模型

针对用户在交互过程中对云服务商缺乏信任的问题,提出了一个基于服务等级协议(SLA)的云计算信任模型。在该模型中,云服务商在向服务中心--可信的第三方平台注册时,首先提交自身的实力评估报告,说明其实力、运营、技术及提供的服务属性等,服务中心根据相关的评价标准对该云服务商进行评估,得到系统信任;其次把系统信任引入到传统的声誉机制中,把系统信任、直接信任和间接信任作为评估一个云服务提供商的三个重要因素,并计算出云服务商的综合信任度;最后用户根据云服务商提供的服务和综合信任度与其进行SLA协商,确定最终交互对象,屏蔽掉不诚实或信誉较低的云服务商。实验结果表明,在基于服务等级协议的信任模型中,由于引入了系统信任,云服务商综合信誉的获得更全面准确、有效地防止了云服务商的不诚信行为,提高了交互的成功率。     

Multi-attribute optimization in service selection

As multiple service providers may compete to offer the same functionality with different quality of service (e.g., latency, fee, and reputation), a key issue in service computing is selecting service providers with the best user desired quality. Existing service selection approaches mostly rely on computing a predefined objective function. When multiple quality criteria are considered, users are required to express their preference over different (and sometimes conflicting) quality attributes as numeric weights. This is a rather demanding task and an imprecise specification of the weights could miss user desired services. We propose a multi-attribute optimization approach to tackle this issue. In particular, we develop a novel concept, called service skyline, and a set of service skyline computation techniques that return a set of most interesting service providers. These providers are non-dominant in all user interested quality attributes. Thus, the service skyline ensures that the user desired providers will be included. Analytical and experimental studies justify the performance of the proposed techniques. The relative small sizes of the service skylines also make it practical for service users to make selections from them.     

基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型

针对大规模分布式云计算系统中的服务可信度辨别问题,提出一种基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型。对云计算系统中云服务提供商、服务和用户之间的信任关系进行形式化描述,充分挖掘了同一服务商中的不同云服务之间的关联性,利用凸函数证据理论对有序命题的处理能力,构建了云计算系统中的可信服务推荐方法,根据用户需求为其提供合理可靠的云服务。与经典证据理论方法的对比结果表明,基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型在保证有效性和健壮性的同时,充分利用了云计算系统中云服务之间的关联信息,能够根据用户的请求提供合理的云服务。     

基于HTTPS的云服务环境构建

在云计算高速发展的形势下,国内外越来越多的企业和个人将服务向云上迁移,从而实现敏捷、灵活管理,降低IT成本,以提高企业在新时代下发展动力和竞争力。本文提出基于安全超文本传输协议(HTTPS)的云服务环境的构建方法。通过云服务器的简单高效、安全可靠、处理能力可弹性伸缩等特性,并结合HTTPS的加密优势,从而达到为企业和个人不同的路径上提供不同的解决方案,并提供完备的解决方案,从而帮助企业和用户快速地搭建云服务环境。     

企业云服务体系结构的参考模型与开发方法

服务与云计算范型的融合有助于大规模分布式软件的开发和应用,同时也为面向服务的软件工程带来了新的挑战。云计算的最大挑战是缺少事实上的标准或单一的体系结构方法,以满足企业将关键产品作为Internet上的云服务发布的应用需求。首先,针对企业云计算的业务特点,提出了一种企业云服务体系结构(Enterprise Cloud Service Architecture,ECSA)风格的通用和抽象参考模型,分析了该模型中的云服务、服务模式、服务消费者、管理、流程、质量属性、服务构件模型、服务匹配和交互模式匹配9个组件及其之间的关系,并讨论了它们中的角色。然后,提出了一个四阶段的ECSA迭代改进过程,该过程把云服务视为首要的类建模元素,通过解除云服务模型和来自目标构件配置之间的耦合,可实现相同云服务集的多种不同体系结构。最后,给出了一种基于该模型的期货程序化交易的私有云服务应用实例,用以展示该方法的可行性和有效性。     

私有云平台服务能力检测方法

针对现阶段使用私有云评测方法缺失所导致搭建私有云供需不匹配的问题,提出了一种自适应、可扩展的私有云系统能力检测方法,可对基础设施即服务（IaaS）云计算系统能力进行评测。首先,通过私有云应用程序接口动态扩展虚拟机数量;然后,通过性能特征模型选取虚拟机所需配置的硬件信息和操作系统类别,并根据用户的需求差异使用不同的负载模型,形成相应的模拟运行环境;最后,使用云计算服务等级协议（SLA）作为测试标准来衡量私有云服务能力。使用所提方法对Openstack开源私有云平台的能力进行了评测,实验结果表明,所提方法可以准确得出私有云服务能力,结果和用户实测一致。该方法负载生成成本更低,测试效率更高。并将该方法与Openstack自带的组件Rally进行对比,拓展性和负载动态模拟有很大的改进。     

Trustworthy assurance of service interoperation in cloud environment

Cloud computing can be realized by service interoperation and its essence is to provide cloud services through network. The development of effective methods to assure the trustworthiness of service interoperation in cloud environment is a very important problem. The essence of cloud security is trust and trust management. Combining quality of service (QoS) with trust model, this paper constructs a QoS-aware and quantitative trust-model that consists of initial trust value, direct trust value, and recommendatory trust value of service, making the provision, discovery, and aggregation of cloud services trustworthy. Hence, it can assure trustworthiness of service interoperation between users and services or among services in cloud environment. At the same time, based on this model, service discovery method based on QoS-aware and quantitative trust-model (TQoS-WSD) is proposed, which makes a solid trust relationship among service requestor, service provider and service recommender, and users can find trustworthy service whose total evaluation value is higher. Compared to QoS-based service discovery (QoS-WSD) method, it is proved by the experiment for TQoS-WSD method that more accurate result of service discovery will be achieved by service requestor, while reasonable time cost is increased. Meanwhile, TQoS-WSD method strongly resists the effect of service discovery by untrustworthy QoS values and improves service invocation success-rate and thus assures trustworthiness of services interoperation.     

面向云联网的云服务协商机制

随着云计算的快速发展,越来越多的用户开始使用云服务提供商提供的服务,而云联网作为云计算研究的新领域,可以实现跨云服务提供商的服务,当单个云服务提供商无法满足用户的服务需求时,云服务提供商之间以合作的方式为用户提供服务,以便更好地满足用户的服务需求。针对上述情况,提出了面向云联网的云服务协商机制,该机制利用云联网和改进的经典合同网模型来实现云服务提供商的交互协商。为了有效地选出合作伙伴以提高合作效率,还为每一个云服务提供商建立了一个熟人集。实验表明,本文设计的机制可以有效地提高云服务提供商之间的合作效率,并且可以更好地满足用户的服务需求。     

A highly secured and streamlined cloud collaborative editing scheme along with an efficient user revocation in cloud computing

These days with the expanded fame of cloud computing, the interest for cloud-based collaborative editing service is rising. The encryption method is utilized to ensure and secure the data, during the collaborative editing process. In the encryption process, the cloud requires more time to work the collaborative editing. This paper proposes an efficient scheme for reducing the encryption burden over the cooperative users, as the possibilities of cooperative users read and write data by means of any gadget. In the proposed scheme, the encrypted file sent by the data owner is split into smaller segments and stored in the cloud by the cloud service provider (CSP) along with specific tags. Once the cooperative user receives and decrypts the file from the CSP, it modifies and encrypts only the modified segment and resends to the CSP. The CSP after verifying the signature replace the original file segment in the cloud with the modified segment based on the tag information. The scheme that is put forward is performed based on the modified ciphertext-policy hierarchical attribute–based encryption, and the security process is done based on the attribute-based signature schemes. This work employs a proficient attribute updating method to accomplish the dynamic change of users' attributes, consisting granting new attributes, revoking previous attributes, and regranting formerly revoked attributes. A writer's attributes and keys have been revoked, and the stale information cannot be written.     

Framework for cloud-based software test data generation service

This paper presents the framework of cloud-based software test data generation service (CSTS) that caters to cost-effective test data generation service in a cloud environment. In contrast to existing conventional or cloud-based testing frameworks, CSTS has a number of unique benefits. First, CSTS is designed to facilitate test data generation in minimum time and cost. Second, unlike existing frameworks which mandates clients to opt for resources to test their jobs, CSTS guides customer for selecting best cluster configuration in order to minimize the cost. While the existing models do not provide any solution for trust establishment in cloud computing services, CSTS delivers it by implementing security mechanism with the provision of role based access control. The security mechanism proposed in this paper ensures the protection of data and code of different users. Third, CSTS provides a mathematical pricing model to fulfill the expectations of customers and also to maximize the net profit of service providers. Cloud service request model has also been designed that postulates service level agreements between customers and service providers. We have evaluated, compared, and analyzed our framework and have found that it outperforms other existing cloud-based frameworks.     

云计算在基于NGB的智慧家庭业务平台上的应用

基于NGB的智慧家庭以其广泛的受众,必将承载海量数据。在智慧家庭业务平台建设中引入云计算技术,不仅可以提供云存储来保存大量数据,更使平台具备对大数据的快速分析和处理能力,这对用户和运营商都大有裨益,为此,文章详细阐述了云计算引入业务平台所带来的好处。     

基于可信第三方实现多云平台的交互和选择

随着云计算商业模式的成功推进,形成了三大主流的云计算服务模式:平台即服务、软件即服务和基础架构即服务。传统行业的供应商纷纷加入云计算的队伍。但由于激烈的竞争环境,使得云计算的标准化道路举步维艰,致使跨平台的交互和移植难以实现。同时,由于对不同的云平台没有形成统一可信的评价标准,使得众多的平台服务让用户无从选择。本文通过具体分析各种应用场景对跨平台服务的需求,得出构建"跨平台即服务"模式的必要性和必然性,提出利用可信第三方来实现"跨平台即服务"模式,给出跨平台的数据交互和移植行为在可信第三方监控下的规范化流程,并提出以可信第三方为中心的云平台安全和信誉评价标准,为企业选择合适的云平台提供参考。