A participating fine-granular cloud computing platform with in-network guidance

摘要

What is an ultimately evolved form of cloud computing environment? The solution should have two important features; “Fine-Granular” and “Participating”. To realize such an attractive and feasible solution with the two features, we advocate a “participating fine-granular cloud computing platform” that a large number of personal or small company level resource suppliers participates in, configures and provides cloud computing. In particular, to efficiently search nearby resources among many and various ones in the platform, we propose Resource Breadcrumbs(RBC) as a key technology to provide in-network guidance capability autonomously for users' requests. This enables to supply users a smaller unit of resources: computing resource, memory resource, content, application etc. in comparison to traditional IaaS service. In the proposal, supplier-nodes distribute, around them, guidance information directed to themselves with dedicated control message, and additionally, the information may be logged along the trail of ACK message from central database server or supplier to user. The distributed information enables user to autonomously locate nearby resources. In addition, distributed management reduces computational load on central database and enables to build participating fine-granular cloud platform with lower cost.