Service-oriented Evaluation of Cloud Applications

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "Service-oriented Evaluation of Cloud Applications"

by

Mr. MONDAL Subrota Kumar


Abstract:

Cloud computing systems are inherently large scale, highly distributed, 
virtualized and operate in automated shared environments. Thus, performance and 
dependability of cloud is affected by a large number of parameters. Cloud 
resources need to be agile and reconfigurable in order to respond quickly to 
ever changing application demands and service requirements. Significant 
research work has been done on designing cloud computing infrastructures in 
order to improve the performance of cloud computing systems.

In this proposal, we present an abstract survey of various service-oriented 
performance and dependability evaluation techniques and metrics of cloud 
computing systems that have been published recently. We start with a discussion 
on the modeling of evaluation techniques and metrics in different fashions for 
one of the service-oriented environments - telecommunication systems in order 
to highlight the factors that affect the performance and dependability of the 
service. Afterwards we focus on cloud computing systems and integrate the 
presented telecommunication's service-oriented performance and dependability 
evaluation techniques and metrics in cloud computing systems. A good 
understanding of state-of-the-art cloud infrastructures would enable the design 
of future cloud architectures in order to provide better cloud service. 
Existing cloud computing systems consume a vast amount of energy and have a 
substantial impact on the environment, consequently we present suitable 
techniques/schemes for reducing energy consumption as well as for reducing the 
environmental impact while meeting the Service Level Agreements (SLAs). We show 
the evaluation of trade-offs amongst performance, dependability and 
sustainability as well. On base of above work, we propose future research plan 
that helps to build a more solid thesis to fulfill the requirement of the 
degree.


Date:			Friday, 12 December 2014

Time:                   2:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:                  Room 3494
                         lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Jogesh Muppala (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Lin Gu (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Brahim Bensaou
 			Prof. Gary Chan


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