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Defining Intercloud Federation Framework for Multi-provider Cloud Services Integration

Authors:
Marc X. Makkes
Canh Ngo
Yuri Demchenko
Rudolf Stijkers
Robert Meijer
Cees de Laat

Keywords: ntercloud Federations Framework; Intercloud Architecture; Cloud Computing Reference Architecture; Multi- layer Cloud Services Model.

Abstract:
This paper presents the on-going research to define the Intercloud Federation Framework (ICFF) which is a part of the general Intercloud Architecture Framework (ICAF) proposed by the authors. ICFF attempts to address the interoperability and integration issues in provisioning on-demand multi-provider multi-domain heterogeneous cloud infrastructure services. The paper describe the major Intercloud federation scenarios that in general involves two type of federations: customer-side fed- eration that includes federation between cloud based services and customer campus or enterprise infrastructure; and provider- side federation that is created by a group of cloud providers to outsource or broker their resources when provisioning services to customers. The proposed ICFF uses cloud resources brokering model as the main operational model in typically non-coordinated Intercloud and multi-cloud environment. The paper analyses federated identity management scenarios and related design patterns that actually creates a basis for operating federations and providing consistent federated access control infrastructure. The paper also refers to successful virtual organisation experience in Grids and attempts to re-use it in ICFF. The presented work attempts to provide an architectural model for developing Intercloud middle-ware and in the way will facilitate cloud interoperability and integration.

Pages: 185 to 190

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-271-4

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013