Cloud Services, Networking, and Management

Preface xiii Contributors xvii PART I BASIC CONCEPTS AND ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES 1 1 CLOUD ARCHITECTURES, NETWORKS, SERVICES, AND MANAGEMENT 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Part I: Introduction to Cloud Computing 4 1.3 Part II: Research Challenges--The Chapters in This Book 14 1.4 Conclusion 21 References 21 2 VIRTUALIZATION IN THE CLOUD 23 2.1 The Need for Virtualization Management in the Cloud 23 2.2 Basic Concepts 25 2.3 Virtualized Elements 26 2.4 Virtualization Operations 29 2.5 Interfaces for Virtualization Management 30 2.6 Tools and Systems 34 2.7 Challenges 40 References 44 3 VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION 49 3.1 Introduction 49 3.2 VM Migration 51 3.3 Virtual Network Migration without Packet Loss 59 3.4 Security of Virtual Environments 61 3.5 Future Directions 66 3.6 Conclusion 68 References 68 PART II CLOUD NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS 73 4 DATACENTER NETWORKS AND RELEVANT STANDARDS 75 4.1 Overview 75 4.2 Topologies 76 4.3 Network Expansion 82 4.4 Traffic 85 4.5 Routing 89 4.6 Addressing 93 4.7 Research Challenges 96 4.8 Summary 98 References 99 5 INTER-DATA-CENTER NETWORKS WITH MINIMUM OPERATIONAL COSTS 105 5.1 Introduction 105 5.2 Inter-Data-Center Network Virtualization 108 5.3 IDC Network Design with Minimum Electric Bills 115 5.4 Inter-Data-Center Network Design with Minimum Downtime Penalties 120 5.5 Overcoming Energy versus Resilience Trade-Off 123 5.6 Summary and Discussions 124 References 126 6 OPENFLOW AND SDN FOR CLOUDS 129 6.1 Introduction 129 6.2 SDN, Cloud Computing, and Virtualization Challenges 130 6.3 Software-Defined Networking 132 6.4 Overview of Cloud Computing and OpenStack 138 6.5 SDN for Cloud Computing 142 6.6 Combining OpenFlow and OpenStack with OpenDaylight 145 6.7 Software-Defined Infrastructures 149 6.8 Research Trends and Challenges 150 6.9 Concluding Remarks 151 References 151 7 MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING 153 7.1 Introduction 153 7.2 Mobile Cloud Computing 155 7.3 Risks in MCC 163 7.4 Risk Management for MCC 177 7.5 Conclusions 184 References 186 PART III CLOUD MANAGEMENT 191 8 ENERGY CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION IN CLOUD DATA CENTERS 193 8.1 Introduction 193 8.2 Energy Consumption in Data Centers: Components and Models 195 8.3 Energy Efficient System-Level Optimization of Data Centers 198 8.4 Conclusions and Open Challenges 210 References 211 9 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING 217 9.1 Introduction 217 9.2 Background Concepts 219 9.3 Related Work 221 9.4 X-Cloud Application Management Platform 222 9.5 Implementation 229 9.6 Experiments and a Case Study 232 9.7 Challenges in Management on Heterogeneous Clouds 238 9.8 Conclusion 239 References 240 10 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING 243 10.1 Introduction 243 10.2 Basic Concepts 244 10.3 Applications 248 10.4 Problem Definition 249 10.5 Resource Management and Scheduling in Clouds 254 10.6 Challenges and Perspectives 262 10.7 Conclusion 264 References 264 11 CLOUD SECURITY 269 11.1 Introduction 270 11.2 Technical Background 273 11.3 Existing Solutions 274 11.4 Transforming to the New IDPS Cloud Security Solutions 278 11.5 FlowIPS: Design and Implementation 279 11.6 FlowIPS vs Snort/Iptables IPS 282 11.7 Network Reconfiguration 284 11.8 Performance Comparison 288 11.9 Open Issues and Future Work 290 11.10 Conclusion 291 References 291 12 SURVIVABILITY AND FAULT TOLERANCE IN THE CLOUD 295 12.1 Introduction 295 12.2 Background 296 12.3 Failure Characterization in Cloud Environments 298 12.4 Availability-Aware Resource Allocation Schemes 299 12.5 Conclusion 307 References 307 PART IV CLOUD APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 309 13 SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ON CLOUDS 311 13.1 Introduction 311 13.2 Background Information 313 13.3 Related Work 313 13.4 IWIR Workflow Model 314 13.5 Amazon SWF Background 315 13.6 RainCloud Workflow 317 13.7 IWIR-to-SWF Conversion 319 13.8 Experiments 324 13.9 Open Challenges 328 13.10 Conclusion 329 References 330 14 INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS ON CLOUDS 333 14.1 Introduction 333 14.2 Delivery Models for Interactive Multimedia Services 335 14.3 Cloud Gaming 339 14.4 UGC Live Streaming 345 14.5 Time-Shifting Video Streaming 351 14.6 Open Challenges 353 14.7 Conclusion 354 References 355 15 BIG DATA ON CLOUDS (BDOC) 361 15.1 Introduction 361 15.2 Historical Perspective and State of the Art 362 15.3 Clouds--Supply and Demand of Big Data 364 15.4 Emerging Business Applications 365 15.5 Cloud and Service Availability 368 15.6 BDOC Security Issues 372 15.7 BDOC Legal Issues 379 15.8 Enabling Future Success--Stem Cultivation and Outreach 384 15.9 Open Challenges and Future Directions 385 15.10 Conclusions 388 References 388 Index 393