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An XRI naming system for dynamic and federated clouds: a performance analysis

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Cloud platforms are dynamic, self-optimizing, continuously changing environments where resources can be composed with other ones in order to provide many types of services to their users, e.g., companies, governments, organizations, and desktop/mobile clients. In order to enable cloud platforms to manage and control their assets, they need to name, identify, and resolve their virtual resources in different operating contexts. In such a scenario, naming, resource location, and information retrieval raise several issues regarding name space management. This paper aims to propose a standard practice for the implementation of a cloud naming system based on the eXtensible Resource Identifier (XRI) technology. More specifically, by means of the development of a Cloud Name Space Management (CNSM) front-end interacting with the OpenXRI architecture, we investigate its performance simulating typical cloud name space management tasks.

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    Antonio Celesti, Massimo Villari & Antonio Puliafito

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Celesti, A., Villari, M. & Puliafito, A. An XRI naming system for dynamic and federated clouds: a performance analysis. J Internet Serv Appl 2, 191–205 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13174-011-0038-7

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Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • Cloud name space
  • Cloud naming system
  • Cloud federation
  • XRI
  • XRDS