A cooperative management model for volunteer infrastructure as a service in P2P cloud

Abstract

IaaS model in the Cloud Computing provides infrastructure services to users. However, the provider of such centralized Cloud requires notable investments to maintain the infrastructures. P2P Cloud, whose infrastructures are provided by multiple volunteer nodes in the P2P network, gives a low cost option to the provision of Cloud Computing. In this paper, a decentralized P2P infrastructure cooperative management model is proposed to offer autonomic infrastructure management and on-demand resource allocation as a service. The model supports nodes to manage complex and various computational resources in P2P infrastructure. Overlay self-configuration service is proposed to dynamically configure the connectivity of nodes in decentralized environments. Task assignment service is designed to allocate resources to run tasks submitted by individual users. Moreover, on-demand resource aggregation mechanism provides service of resource aggregation under user-defined criteria. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.